Links and Legibility: Making Sense of Historical U.S. Census Automated Linking Methods

Making Sense of the 2010 Census

Executive Summary With so much political and economic interest behind accurate results for the United States Census, the Census Bureau has implemented several strategies for dealing with the particularly pesky problem of undercounting, or the exclusion of certain individuals from the Census: These include sampling the population after the Census to gauge how many people were excluded, guessing ...

Making Sense of Automated Tiering

Storage tiering is a technology solution to one of the fundamental IT challenges; data growth and cost containment. But while the concept is simple, its implementation has proved to be complex. Identifying and moving data sets between the different tiers of storage turned out to be much harder than just creating the storage tiers themselves. With SSDs, deduplicated archives and cloud storage ad...

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 w...

Judging Perspective: Making Sense of the 2010 Census

Classification, Links, and Contexts: Making Sense and Using Logic

Keynote Address: UDC Consortium Seminar, Lisbon, Oct 29, 2015. http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/ This is a lightly revised version of text published in the proceedings: Classification & authority control: expanding resource discovery: proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2015, 29-30 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. Edited by Aida Slavic & Maria Inês Cordeiro. Würzburg: ERGONVerlag, 2015. 248...