Advanced methods for linking complex historical birth, death, marriage and census data

Recent years have seen the development of novel techniques for linking complex types of data that contain records about different types of entities, for example bibliographic databases with records about authors, publications, and venues. Advanced approaches have been devised to link individuals and groups of records. These approaches exploit both the similarities between record attributes as well as the relationships between entities. Rather than linking records about different types of entities, in this work we study the novel problem of linking records where the same entity can have different roles and where these roles can change over time.