Digitising Scotland

该项目旨在将自1855年以来苏格兰所有人的2400万次重要事件记录的图像(出生、婚姻和死亡)数字化(即将它们转录成机器编码的文本)。这将允许研究人员获得约1800万人的个人水平信息，这是从1855年到现在在苏格兰生活过的人的很大比例。目前，这些记录被保存为索引图像。这意味着，要提取任何数据，研究人员必须按姓名搜索个人记录，然后手动转录他们自己需要的信息(如死因、职业等)；这当然使任何大规模研究都不可能。一次性投资将意味着这些记录可以用于主要的人口研究。该数据集将准备与现有的纵向研究相联系，主要是苏格兰纵向研究(SLS)，更广泛地说，将与已经高度发达的苏格兰卫生信息学系统相联系。这将使那些在SLS之后的父母、祖父母和其他亲属的特征(出生地、结婚年龄、职业、寿命、死因等)得到分析，因此将加强当代苏格兰和英国的健康数据集、健康信息学系统、纵向数据集和基因研究。幸存下来的子女、孙子和其他后裔不太可能完全代表苏格兰历史上的人口，完整的转录将重要地使不同的人之间能够完全联系起来，为自1855年以来在苏格兰经历重大事件的所有人创建完整或部分生活史。这将意味着英国将首次拥有一个潜在深度和广度类似于斯堪的纳维亚和低国家的数据系统，这些国家的人口登记提供了这样的生活史，在这些国家开展工作，如使用瑞典乌梅大学人口数据库的国家；挪威特罗姆索大学挪威历史数据中心的“历史人口登记册”项目和设在荷兰阿姆斯特丹国际社会史研究所的荷兰历史样本项目目前正在扩大人口统计学以及二十世纪初几十年的经济和社会历史知识。这样的数据集将带来通过多代微观数据在家庭背景下探索目前苏格兰人口状况的可能性。

This project aims to digitise the 24 million vital events record images (births, marriages and deaths) for all people in Scotland since 1855 (ie transcribe them into machine encoded text). This will allow research access to individual level information on some 18 million individuals, a large proportion of those who have ever lived in Scotland between 1855 to the present day. At the moment these records are kept as indexed images. This means that to extract any data, a researcher must search for an individual record by name and then manually transcribe the information they need themselves (eg cause of death, occupation etc.); this of course makes any large scale research impossible. A one off investment would mean that these records could made available for major population research. This dataset will be prepared for linkage to existing longitudinal studies, primarily the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), and more generally to the already highly developed Scottish health informatics systems. This will allow the characteristics (place of birth, age at marriage, occupation, longevity, cause of death etc) of parents, grandparents and other relatives of those followed by the SLS to be analysed and will therefore enhance contemporary Scottish and UK health datasets, health informatics systems, longitudinal datasets and genetic studies. People surviving to have children, grandchildren and other descendents are unlikely to be fully representative of the historic population of Scotland, and the complete transcription will importantly enable a complete linkage exercise between the different to create full or partial life histories for all those experiencing vital events in Scotland since 1855.This will mean that for the first time the UK will have a data system of a similar potential depth and breadth as the Scandinavian and Low countries, whose population registers provide such life histories, with countries, where work such as those using "The Demographic Database" at Umeá University, Sweden; the "Historical Population Registers" Project at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre, University of Tromso, Norway and the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, based at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands is currently extending knowledge of demography as well as economic and social history over the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century. Such a dataset will bring the possibility of exploring the condition of the present Scottish population within the context of their families through multiple generations of micro-data.