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dc.contributor.authorThorvaldsen, Gunnar
dc.contributor.authorHolden, Lars
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-22T13:40:52Z
dc.date.available2023-11-22T13:40:52Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-11
dc.description.abstractNorwegian work on microdata started out with the full count 1801 census and census and vital records from around the capital. Today, most census and ministerial records from 1801 until the mid-20th century have been scanned, transcriptions are being completed, much is encoded and made available via the websites of the Digital National Archives and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. This article complements a previous publication on empirical results from historical microdata. It is primarily organized by technical issues: digitization of source materials, encoding and standardization, building of the Historical Population Register for the period since 1800, record linkage and source criticism as well as GIS. Presently, partner institutions are building the Historical Population Register with prolonged support from the Norwegian Research Council. This will contain longitudinal records of the nine million persons who lived in Norway since 1800. The register increasingly makes it possible to follow the entire population. Unique personal IDs with corresponding URLs to the person page providing links to many sources introduce a new level of historical documentation. Cross-sectional and vital records are being interlinked with automatic and manual record linkage software. Longitudinal data is available for searching as timelines and in Intermediate Data Structure format from UiT The Arctic University and for searching at Histreg.no, which also caters for manual editing. We are well on the way to creating a database that can fill the void in the two centuries before the Central Population Register starts in 1964.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThorvaldsen, Holden. The Development of Microhistorical Databases in Norway A Historiography. Historical Life Course Studies. 2023;13:127-147en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2182130
dc.identifier.doi10.51964/hlcs14315
dc.identifier.issn2352-6343
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/31850
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherEHPS-Neten_US
dc.relation.journalHistorical Life Course Studies
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleThe Development of Microhistorical Databases in Norway A Historiographyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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