Building a life course dataset from Australian convict records: Founders & Survivors: Australian life courses in historical context 1803-1920

Janet Susan McCalman; Len Smith; Sandra Silcott; Rebecca Kippen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19884-2_14

Building a life course dataset from Australian convict records: Founders & Survivors: Australian life courses in historical context 1803-1920

Janet Susan McCalman, Len Smith, Sandra Silcott, Rebecca Kippen

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Founders & Survivors is a multi-university and public collaborative project that is building a transnational and intergenerational dataset of life courses generated from the UNESCO recognised convict records of Tasmania. This chapter outlines the technical history of the project: mass digitization and archiving online of over 100,000 images, manual scholarly transcription and the building of a prosopography database. This comprises a relational genealogy database integrated with an XML (BaseX) source database. Individual life histories are compiled dynamically from diverse sources, linked by a combination of machine matching and human judgment, and managed by an independent link management module. Using Google Docs over 50 online volunteers crowdsourced the convict genealogies and coded the data. Manual linkage and scholarly verification remained essential for the collation of prosopographical data and manual coding was necessary for statistical analysis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Population Reconstruction
Editors	Gerrit Bloothooft, Peter Christen, Kees Mandemakers, Marijn Schraagen
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Pages	285-298
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9783319198835
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19884-2_14
Publication status	Published - 2015

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McCalman, J. S., Smith, L., Silcott, S., & Kippen, R. (2015). Building a life course dataset from Australian convict records: Founders & Survivors: Australian life courses in historical context 1803-1920. In G. B. P. C. K. M. M. S. (Ed.), Population Reconstruction (1st ed., Vol. 1, pp. 285-298). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19884-2_14

McCalman, Janet Susan ; Smith, Len ; Silcott, Sandra et al. / Building a life course dataset from Australian convict records: Founders & Survivors: Australian life courses in historical context 1803-1920. Population Reconstruction. editor / Gerrit Bloothooft, Peter Christen, Kees Mandemakers, Marijn Schraagen. Vol. 1 1st. ed. Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing AG, 2015. pp. 285-298

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