Outputs
Book/Book Chapter
Gender specific mortality trends over the epidemiological transtition: a view from the British mainland 1850-2000
Reid, A., Garrett, E', Dibben, C., Williamson, L. (2016) Dinges, M., Weigl, A. 5 73-88 Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart ISBN: 978-3-515-11258-1
A Century of Deaths, Scotland 1855–1955: A View from the Civil Registers
Buckham, S., Jupp, P., Rugg, J. (2016) Peter Lang ISBN: 978-3-0343-1821-1
Available online: Link
Automatic Methods for Coding Historical Occupation Descriptions to Standard Classifications
Kirby, G., Carson, J., Dunlop, F., Dibben, C., Dearle, A., Williamson, L., Garrett, E., Reid, A. (2015) 3 43-60 Springer International Publishing ISBN: 978-3-319-19883-5
Available online: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319198835
Conference Proceedings, Papers & Posters
Validating Synthetic Longitudinal Populations for evaluation of Population Data Linkage published in IJPDS International Journal of Population Data Science
Dalton, T., Kirby, G., Dearle, A., Akgun, O., Mackenzie, M. (2018) International Journal of Population Data Science 3(2:035), IJPDS 31 May 2018.
Available online: https://ijpds.org/article/view/504/428
Querying metric spaces with bit operations
Connor, R., Dearle, A. (2018) Similarity, Search and Applications 33-46 Springer 4 October 2018. Similarity Search and Applications, 11th International Conference, SISAP 2018, Proceedings, Lima, Peru October 7-9, 2018
Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02224-2_3
Using Metric Space Indexing for Complete and Efficient Record Linkage
Akgun, O. (2018) Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Available online: Link
Validating synthetic longitudinal populations for evaluation of population data linkage
Kirby, G. (2018) International Conference for Administrative Data Research 2018 Queens University, Belfast 21-22 June 2018
Available online: https://ijpds.org/article/view/504
Understanding the linking possibilities in Scottish records and an algorithmic approach to full linkage
Kirby, G. (2018) International Conference for Administrative Data Research 2018 Queens University, Belfast 21-22 June 2018
Available online: https://ijpds.org/article/view/508
Record linking using metric space similarity search
Dearle, A. (2017) ADRN Conference 2017
Evaluating population data linkage: assessing stability, scalability, resilience and robustness across many data sets for comprehensive linkage evaluation
Dalton, TS. (2017) ADRN Conference 2017
Learning From Past Links: Understanding the Limits of Linkage Quality
Akgun, O. (2017) BSPS Annual Conference 2017
Probabilistic linkage of vital event records in Scotland using familial groups
Akgün, Ö., Dalton, T., Dearle, A., Garret, E., Kirby, G. (2017) Workshop for the Systematic Linking of Historical Records, Guelph, Canada 11-13 May 2017
Available online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323225362_Probabilistic_Linkage_of_Vital_Event_Records_in_Scotland_using_Familial_Groups
Introducing ‘movers’ into community reconstructions: linking civil registers of vital events to local and national census data: a Scottish experiment
Garrett, E., Reid, A. (2016) Workshop on Population Reconstruction International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands 19-21 February 2014.
Available online: Link
Automatic extraction of multiple underlying causes from textual death records
Kirby, G., Hajiarab Derkani, M., Dearle, A., Carson, J K;Dunlop, F R J., Dibben, C J L., Williamson, L. (2015) University of St Andrews Farr Institute International Conference on Data Intensive Health Research and Care
Available online: Link
Automatic Methods for Coding Historical Occupation Descriptions to Standard Classifications
Kirby, G., Carson, J., Dunlop, F., Dearle, A., Dibben, C., Williamson, L., Garrett, E. & Reid, A. (2014) Workshop on Population Reconstruction International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands 19-21 February 2014.
Comparing Relational and Graph Databases for Pedigree Data Sets
Kirby, G.N.C., de Kerckhove, C., Shumailov, I., Carson, J.K., Dearle, A., Dibben, C.J.L. & Williamson, L. (2014) Workshop on Population Reconstruction International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands 19-21 February 2014.
Progress and Developments of the Digitising Scotland (DS) Project
Williamson, L., Carson, J., Daras, K., Dearle, A,, Dibben, C., Dunlop, F., Feng, Z., Huang, Z., Garrett, E., Kirby, G., Reid, A. (2014) Social Science History Association (SSHA) Toronto, Canada Nov 6-9 2014
Progress and developments of the Digitising Scotland (DS) Project
Williamson, L., Dibben, C. (2014) British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Annual conference Winchester, UK 8-10 -2014
Death in town and country: Scotland 1861-1901
Reid, A., Garrett, E. (2014) Economic History Society Annual conference, Warwick Warwick, UK 28–30 March 2014
Available online: Link
A century of deaths, Scotland 1855-1955; a view from the civil registers
Reid, A., Garrett, E., Williamson, L, Dibben, C. (2014) European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Vienna, Austria 23-26 April 2014
Gender specific mortality trends over the epidemiological transition: a view from the British mainland 1850-2000
Garrett, E., Reid, A., Dibben, C., Williamson, L. (2014) The drifting apart of gender-specific life expectancy in Central and Northwestern Europe 1850/1900-2000/10. A comparison, organized by the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany 20 Feb 2014
‘Over the sea from Skye’: a record linkage approach to migration using Scottish civil register and micro-census data, 1861-1881
Garrett, E., Reid, A. (2014) European Society for Historical Demography Conference, Alghero Sardinia, September 25-27 2014
Available online: Link
‘Over the sea from Skye’: a record linkage approach to migration using Scottish civil register and micro-census data, 1861-1881
Garrett, E., Reid, A. (2014) British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Annual conference, Winchester, 8-10 September 2014
Available online: Link
Historical Demography: past, present and future, a genealogist’s view
Garrett, E. (2014) British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Annual conference, Winchester, 8-10 September 2014
Available online: Link
“Drowned while … lobster fishing” versus “Run over by a railway wagon”, a rural- urban comparison of cause of, and age at, death; Skye and Kilmarnock 1861-1901
Garrett, E. & Reid, A. (2013) Death in Modern Scotland, 1855: beliefs, attitudes and practices Edinburgh 1-3 Feb 2013.
Comparing relational and graph database for pedigree data sets
Kirby, G.N.C., de Kerckhove, C., Shumailov, I., Carson, J.K., Dearle, A., Dibben, C.J.L. & Williamson, L. (2013) Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP) conference 2013 University of St Andrews, UK 28 -30 August 2013
From ague to pyrexia and from smallpox to heart disease: an overview of causes of death in Scotland 1855-1955
Reid, A. & Garrett, E. (2013) Death in Modern Scotland, 1855: beliefs, attitudes and practices Edinburgh 1-3 Feb 2013
From ague to pyrexia and from smallpox to heart disease: a general overview of causes of death in Scotland 1855-1955
Reid, A., Garrett, E., Dibben, C. & Williamson, L. (2013) British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Swansea, 9-11 Sep 2013
Towards a long-term historical cause of death coding scheme
Reid, A., Garrett, E., Dibben, C. & Williamson, L. (2013) British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Swansea 9-11 Sep 2013.
Exploiting historical registers: Automatic methods for coding c19th and c20th cause of death descriptions to standard classifications
Carson, J., Kirby, G., Dearle, A., Williamson, L., Garrett, E., Reid, A. & Dibben, C. (2013) NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 15-17 March 2013
Available online: Link
Download outcome document: Exploiting historical registers: Automatic methods for coding c19th and c20th cause of death descriptions to standard classifications. PDF
Linking Scottish Civil Registration Records into Individual and Family Histories: A Pilot Study.
Huang, Z., Razzell, P., Dibben C. & Boyle, P. (2012) ESSHC Glasgow 11-14 Apr 2012
Linking Scottish vital events records back through time to produce the ‘Understanding Scotland’s People Study’
Williamson, L. (2012) 2nd Mosaic conference: Residence patterns of the elderly Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Budapest, Hungary 6-7 Sep 2012
Download outcome document: Understanding Scotland’s People Study poster - (PDF 1.5MB)
Pilot Project Investigating the Feasibility of Transcribed Family Tree Data for Research
Williamson, L. & Dibben, C. (2012) European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) Glasgow 11 – 14 Apr 2012
Event or Workshop
Digitising Scotland Summer Workshop
(2018) Digitising Scotland Summer Workshop University of Edinburgh, Scotland 28th August 2018
Participation in a ‘Hackathon’ (‘Thyynge’)
(2016) St Andrews University, Department of Computing Science, St Andrews, Scotland 2nd - 4th November 2016
Spatial Humanities Expert Meeting, Lancaster
Garrett, E., Reid, A, Day, J. (2016) University of Lancaster, UK 28th November 2016
Historical record linkage on the Isle of Skye: A colloquium for historians and computer scientists
(2016) Skye Data Linkage event
“HAG-GIS: An advanced system for geocoding historical addresses in Scotland” in the EHPS-NET workshop- Working Group 9- “
(2015) Participation in the EHPS-NET workshop University of Edinburgh, UK 3rd July 2015
Available online: Link
HAG-GIS: An advanced system for geocoding historical addresses in Scotland
(2015) European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net) workshop - Working Group 9 - GIS - Integrating time, space and individual life stories University of Edinburgh 3-4 July 2015
Working Group 9 – Geocoding 24 million historical addresses in Scotland from 1855 to 1974 (EHPS-Net Meeting)
(2014) GIS and the integration of individual level sociodemographic data within large urban areas Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna, Austria 22 April 2014
Available online: https://ehps-net.eu/news/workshop-working-group-9
Formal Working Group/Expert Panel or Dialogue
Involvement in Health in Port Cities project
Garrett, E. (2018) Radbound University, Netherlands
Available online: https://www.ru.nl/historicaldemography/research-projects/ship/
Spatial Humanities Expert Meeting, Lancaster
Garrett, E., Reid, A, Day, J. (2016) University of Lancaster, UK 28th November 2016
GIS working group ‘Integrating time, space and individual life stories’.
(2015) Edinburgh Bioquarter 3-5 July 2015
Available online: https://ehps-net.eu/news/workshop-working-group-9-0
Geocoding 24 million historical addresses in Scotland (HGIS meeting)
(2014) University of Edinburgh
Working Group 9 – Geocoding 24 million historical addresses in Scotland from 1855 to 1974 (EHPS-Net Meeting)
(2014) GIS and the integration of individual level sociodemographic data within large urban areas Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna, Austria 22 April 2014
Available online: https://ehps-net.eu/news/workshop-working-group-9
Journal Article/Review
Evaluation measure for group-based record linkage
Nanayakkara, C., Christen, P., Ranbaduge, T., Garrett, E. (2019) International Journal of Population Data Science (1), 29 November 2019.
Available online: https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v4i1.1127
Linking Scottish vital event records using family groups
Akgun, O., Dearle A, Kirby G, Garrett E, Dalton T, Christen P, Dibben C, Williamson L (2019) Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 53(2), 130-146 Taylor & Francis Online 25 March 2019.
Available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2019.1571466
Understanding the linking possibilities in Scottish Records and an algorithmic approach to full linkage
Dearle, A., Kirby, G., Williamson, L., Dibben, C. (2018) International Journal of Population Data Science 3(2), IJPDS 11 June 2018.
Available online: https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v3i2.508
Historical Life Course Studies (online) – Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901
Reid, A., Garrett, E. (2018) European Historical Population Samples Network 6(1), 111-132 EHPS 26 March 2018.
Available online: https://ehps-net.eu/article/mortality-work-and-migration-consideration-age-specific-mortality-tuberculosis-scotland-1861
Medical provision and urban-rural differences in maternal mortality in late nineteenth century Scotland.
Reid, A., Garrett, E. (2018) Social science & medicine (1982) 20135-43 Science Direct, Elsevier 28 January 2018.
Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.028
A confession of ignorance’: deaths from old age and deciphering cause-of-death statistics in Scotland, 1855-1949
Reid, A., Garrett, E', Dibben, C., Williamson, L. (2015) The history of the family : an international quarterly 20 (3), 320-344 5 February 2015. ISSN: 1081-602X
Available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F1081602X.2014.1001768
Seminar/Invited Talk
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
(2020) University of Cambridge 19th Feb 2020
Available online: https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/seminars/previous.html
3rd European Society of Historical Demography Conference in Pecs, Hungary
(2019) 3rd European Society of Historical Demography Conference Pecs, Hungary 26-29 June 2019
Available online: Link
Presentation to the Scottish Association of Family History Societies Annual Conference
(2017) Scottish Association of Family History Societies Annual Conference Kinghorn, Fife 22 April 2017
Digitising and Geocoding Historical Vital Events in Scotland from 1855 to 1974”
(2016) 11th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) Valencia, Spain 30 March 2016
Available online: https://esshc.socialhistory.org/esshc-user/programme/2016
Geocoding 24 million historical addresses in Scotland from 1855 to 1974″, in the International Conference of Historical Geographers, RGS-IBG
(2015) London 5-10 July 2015
HAG-GIS: a spacial framework for geocoding historical addresses
(2015) GIS RESEARCH UK 2015: Annual Conference University of Leeds
Available online: Link
Software or Technical Product
Automatic classification for occupation and cause of death strings
Dr Graham Kirby (2014)
Available online: Link
Talk/Presentation/Debate
Tracing the epidemiological transition in the deaths occurring on the Isle of Skye, Scotland 1861-1970
Garrett, E. (2019) European Society for Historical Demography Biennial conference . June 2019
Tracing the epidemiological transition in the deaths occurring on the Isle of Skye, Scotland 1861-1970
Garrett, E. (2019) British Populations Studies Society annual conference, Sep 2019
Temporal and seasonal patterns of infant mortality in Scotland, 1901-1970
Nowok, B. (2019) British Society for Population Studies 2019 Conference Cardiff, UK 9-11 September 2019
Available online: Link
Translating’ records of Scotland’s past to tell meaningful stories: The production of Scottish longitudinal historical micro-dataset
Nowok, B. (2019) 44th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Chicago, IL, USA 21-24 November 2019.
Available online: https://www.cossa.org/event/2019-social-science-history-association-annual-meeting/
Reconstructing Historical Populations: How Do You Know if it Worked?
Kirby, G. (2019) St Andrew Institute for Data-Intensive Research, St Andrews University, Scotland October 2018
Available online: Link
BitBlaster: A fast complete similarity search algorithm
Kirby, G. (2018) Research talk at meeting of St Andrew Institute for Data-Intensive Research Sep 2018
Available online: Link
Validating synthetic longitudinal populations for evaluation of population data linkage
Kirby, G. (2018) International Conference for Administrative Data Research 2018 Queens University, Belfast 21-22 June 2018
Available online: https://ijpds.org/article/view/504
Understanding the linking possibilities in Scottish records and an algorithmic approach to full linkage
Kirby, G. (2018) International Conference for Administrative Data Research 2018 Queens University, Belfast 21-22 June 2018
Available online: https://ijpds.org/article/view/508
Historical record linkage on the Isle of Skye: A colloquium for historians and computer scientists
(2016) Skye Data Linkage event
Technical/Research Report
Automatic methods for coding historical cause of death descriptions to standard classifications
Kirby, G.N.C., Carson, J.K., Dibben, C.J.L., Dearle, A., Williamson, L., Garrett, E. & Reid, A. (2013)
Working Paper
Automatic extraction of multiple underlying causes from textual death records
Kirby, G., Hajiarabderkani, M., Dearle, A., Carson, J. K., Dunlop, F. R. J., Dibben, C., Williamson, L. (2016)
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