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Database Concept for Transcription of Registry Records into Digital Form

KOČÍ, R.; ROZMAN, J.; ZBOŘIL, F.

Original Title

Database Concept for Transcription of Registry Records into Digital Form

English Title

Database Concept for Transcription of Registry Records into Digital Form

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

This paper describes our design of database for crowdsourcingproject designed to transcribe data from old parish book registers- baptisms, weddings and burials. In this database informationabout names, occupations, addresses or personal relationships willbe stored. Database is based on information extracted from realrecords from various parishes and times, which was done byprofessional historians. The nature of data and the requirement totranscribe it as faithfully as possible entails several problems.These problems and limitations will be discussed and the resultingdatabase structure will be presented.

English abstract

This paper describes our design of database for crowdsourcingproject designed to transcribe data from old parish book registers- baptisms, weddings and burials. In this database informationabout names, occupations, addresses or personal relationships willbe stored. Database is based on information extracted from realrecords from various parishes and times, which was done byprofessional historians. The nature of data and the requirement totranscribe it as faithfully as possible entails several problems.These problems and limitations will be discussed and the resultingdatabase structure will be presented.

Keywords

Genealogy, serial sources, database, data transcription

Key words in English

Genealogy, serial sources, database, data transcription

Authors

KOČÍ, R.; ROZMAN, J.; ZBOŘIL, F.

RIV year

2021

Released

12.01.2020

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Location

Sydney

ISBN

978-1-4503-7690-7

Book

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management - ICSIM'20

Pages from

21

Pages to

25

Pages count

5

URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3378936.3378974

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT162290,
  author="Radek {Kočí} and Jaroslav {Rozman} and František {Zbořil}",
  title="Database Concept for Transcription of Registry Records into Digital Form",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management - ICSIM'20",
  year="2020",
  pages="21--25",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="Sydney",
  doi="10.1145/3378936.3378974",
  isbn="978-1-4503-7690-7",
  url="https://doi.org/10.1145/3378936.3378974"
}