Information requirements and data description in historical social research: a proposal
In: Historical social research: HSR-Retrospective (HSR-Retro) = Historische Sozialforschung, Band 12, Heft 2/3, S. 191-200
ISSN: 2366-6846
Description and documentation is one of the
major prerequisites for disseminating and exchanging
machine-readable historical sources and data. This
proposal for description and documentation items is an
attempt for standardizing information requirements in
historical research; it does not give recommendations
for all possible description and documentation needs,
but instead attempts to set essential parameters for
describing and documenting machine-readable historical
sources and data. In the appendix to this proposal, an
example using the 1851 Census of England and Wales is
given to provide a detailed illustration of the proposal.