With the increasing number of documents that are available in digital form, also the number of digital historical documents is increasing (Berkvens, 2001). It cannot be assumed that standard IR systems perform well on historical documents: historical texts differ from modern texts in three ways (Hüning, 1996; Van Der Horst and Marschall, 1989): (a) vocabularies have changed, (b) spelling has ch...

Eva Cox was a founder member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, and has been Convenor of the Women’s Economic Thinktank since 1989. A sociologist, lecturer, and previously Director of the NSW Council of Social Service, she is a frequent commentator on social policy areas, and delivered the 1995 Boyer Lectures. Her book Leading Women (Random House, 1996) further explores issues raised in this paper...

A replication and analysis of the Artificial Anasazi model is presented. It is shown that the success of replicating historical data is based on two parameters that adjust the carrying capacity of the Long House Valley. Compared to population estimates equal to the carrying capacity the specific agent behavior contributes only a modest improvement of the model to fit the archaeological records....

Working papers of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research receive only limited review. Views or opinions expressed in working papers are attributable to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. "The husband’s mother is the devil in house" Data on the impact of the mother-in-law on stillbirth mortality in historical Krummhörn (C18-C19 Germany) and some thought...

Figure 1. Graphical abstract: Gazetteers of geohistorical objects are created based on information extracted from georeferenced historical maps. Geocoding an historical address is then finding the best matching object based on customised function (semantic, temporal aspect, spatial precision, etc.). Results can be displayed in a dedicated web interface for collaborative editing. Abstract: The l...

26 THE DIAPASON This article celebrates the 100th anniversary of Distler’s birth year. It enhances understanding of Distler as a composer and examines performance aspects of his organ works. Relevant biographical information introduces us to Distler’s socio-historical environment. The physical infl uences of Lübeck’s organs and Distler’s house organ explain Distler’s compositional output in ter...

We show that an auctioneer (such as an auction house, or a procurement agency) should disclose historical information about winning bids from past auctions, as opposed to disclosing all bids, because this induces bidders to bid more, and raises revenues. We provide a theoretical explanation for our experimental findings based on a bias: at least some subjects may miss that winning bids are not ...

Here, we describe the CEDAR dataset, a five-star Linked Open Data representation of the Dutch historical censuses. These were conducted in the Netherlands once every 10 years from 1795 to 1971. We produce a linked dataset from a digitized sample of 2,288 tables. It contains more than 6.8 million statistical observations about the demography, labour and housing of Dutch society in the 18th, 19th...