Information requirements and data description in historical social research. A proposal

2017/11/28 by Marker, Hans-Jörgen, Reinke, Herbert, Schurer, Kevin
#Daten #Dokumentation #Great Britain #Großbritannien #data #documentation #historical social research #historische Sozialforschung

paper · doi:10.12759/hsr.12.1987.2/3.191-200

Abstract

Description and documentation is one of the major prerequisites for disseminating and exchanging machine-readable historical sources and data. This proposal for description and documentation items is an attempt for standardizing information requirements in historical research; it does not give recommendations for all possible description and documentation needs, but instead attempts to set essential parameters for describing and documenting machine-readable historical sources and data. In the appendix to this proposal, an example using the 1851 Census of England and Wales is given to provide a detailed illustration of the proposal.

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