Program

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Workshop

• Publishing databases on the internet. A small-scale example. (Responsible: IT consultant Trygve Andersen, University of Tromsø.)
  Location: Computer lab at The Faculty of Social Sciences, the northern end of building 9.

09.15

• Overview of software, database and hardware.

• REGISTRATION
  Room: B1003

12.15

• Lunch

13.15-15.30

• Hands-on practices.

• AHC board meeting. The Norwegian Historical Data Centre, building 12, lower level.

• AHC council meeting. The Norwegian Historical Data Centre, building 12, lower level.

08.00 - 16.00

• REGISTRATION
  Room: B1003

11.15 Opening. Room: The University Library

• Gunnar Thorvaldsen and representatives from the University of Tromsø and The Faculty of Social Sciences.

• Ole Lehrmann Madsen, University of Aarhus: The legend and history of object oriented computing.
• Lars Nygaard, The National Archives, Oslo: Two examples of object oriented programming in the historical discipline.

13.15

• Lunch

14.15 - 16.00 Parallel sessions

• Advanced techniques for linking and studying of family group networks. (Chair: Peter Doorn, Amsterdam). Room: E0.101
  • Peter Teibenbacher, University of Graz: Demographic transition - a relational data-base and statistical oriented solution.
  • Nanna Floor Claussen, Danish Data Archive, Odense: Widowhood in Denmark 1801. An analysis of the living conditions of a specific social group - based on the complete 1801 census.
  • Marco Sunder, University of Munich: On the Biological Standard of Living of the Middle Class in 19th Century U.S.

• Teaching history with information technology I. (Chair: Jan Oldervoll, University of Bergen.) Room: The University Library
  
  • Onno Boonstra, Nijmegen: Information technology in history teaching. Learning history by writing history: the Low Countries History Museum.
  • Andrei Volodin, Moscow Lomonosov State University: Statistics Multimedia Teaching.
  • Seamus Ross, HATII, University of Glasgow: Semantic Web, Managed Learning Environments, Augmented Reality.
  • Vladimir Pereverten, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow: An approach of presentation of interdisciplinary lecture simultaneously for two categories of students.

• Methods for marginal groups (Chair: Kees Mandemakers, Amsterdam). Room: E0.103
  • Evgueni Zlobine, Moscow State Institute for History and Archives: Moscow secret police department (Okhranka) undercover agents records - the problems of database creation.
  • Aislu Yunusova, Bashkir State University: Moslem Cleargy and Mosks in Russian Imperia: Data Bases on Materials of Historical Archive of Bashkortostan.
  • Wolfgang Meixner, University of Innsbruck: Regional and social background of expatriated illegal members of the NSDAP in Austria between 1933 and 1938.

16.30 - 18.15 Parallel sessions / round table

• Geographic information systems I. (Chair: Marc St Hilaire, Univ de Quebec). Room: E0.101
  • Nina V. Piotukh and A. Frolov, Moscow State University: Electronic Historical Atlas of Derevskaya Pyatina, Great Novgorod Region, XV-XVIIIth c.
  • Norbert Winnige, MPI für Geschichte, Goettingen: TASC B (Transnational Atlas and Database of Saints Cults.) A GIS for dedications of saints in Europe.
  • Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen, Centre for Maritime and Regional Studies, University of Southern Denmark / Fisheries and Maritime Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark. Using GIS and Multivariable statistic in regional economic analyses.

• Statistical methods for economic history. (Chair: Onno Boonstra, University of Nijmegen.) Room: The University library
  • Tamara Izmestieva, Historical Informatics Lab. History Dept. Moscow State University: Syndicate and its Impact on the Development of Russian coal mining industry. The Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Methods of Analysis and Results
      [ PowerPoint presentation. 204 kB]
    
  • Timur Valetov, Moscow State University, the Faculty of History, Historical Informatics Lab: Wage Inequality Simulation (on the materials of Russian industries, 1890-1900s).
  • George M. Welling, University of Groningen: New points of view on Price History, based on analysis of the Paalgeld Portbooks, 1771-1778
  • Sofia Salomatina, Historical Informatics Lab, Moscow State University, Russia: Bargain or Reputation: The Cluster Analysis of Discount in Russian Banks, 1864-1894.

• Round table: Marjan Balkestein, Annelies van Nispen and Peter Doorn, Netherland Historical Data Archive: Data archiving topics. Room: E0.103
  Panelists:
  Marjan Balkestein, Amsterdam
  Robert Blomqvist, Stockholm
  Peter Doorn, Amsterdam
  Sören Edvinsson, Umeå
  Mats Hayen, Stockholm
  Hans Jørgen Marker, Odense
  Annelies van Nispen, Amsterdam
  Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Tromsø
  Matthew Woollard, Colchester

• Reception at the Mack Brewery.  

11.00 - 14.00

• REGISTRATION
  Room: B1003

09.15 - 11.00 Parallel sessions

• The dissemination and analysis of large aggregate and other data sets. Chair: George Welling, University of Groningen) Room: The University Library
  • Sören Edvinsson, Umeå University: The Swedish Parish Statistics. Tabellverket1749-1859. Advantages and problems for research on computerized long-term statistics.
  • Donald Spaeth, University of Glasgow: Structured or Semi-Structured? Applying XML to Historical Data
  • Janet Delve and Mark Allen, Portsmouth and Winchester, U.K: Data warehousing - a new approach for historians?

• Migration and statistics. (Chair: Lisa Dillon, University of Montreal.) Room: E0.103
  • Valeriy Kanishev and Roman B Konchakov, The Tambov State University: The Databases for study the Social-Demographic History of Russia (in XIX B beg. XX c.) on microlevel: formation, record linkage, make GIS, problem analysis.
  • Leonid Borodkin and Anna Konovalova, Moscow Lomonosov State University: Chaotic Dynamics of Share Prices at St. Petersburg Stock Market in the First Decade of the 20 th century: Metal and Oil.
  • Lotta Vikström, Umeå University: Mastering and Measuring Historical Data: Possibilities and Obstacles when Analyzing Migrants' Life-Courses in Swedish Parish Registers from Late Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall.
    [ Paper. Word-file. 219 kB kB ]   -   [ Figures. Word-file. 298 kB ]
    
    See Lotta Vikrtröm:  Gendered Routes and Courses: The Socio-Spatial Mobility of Migrants in Nine­teenth-Century Sundsvall, Sweden
  • Patricia Kelly Hall, University of Minnesota: World War II Black Veteran Migration and the Distributive Impact of the G.I. Bill

• Various approaches to the term of "historical informatics". (Responsible: Peter Teibenbacker, University of Graz.) Room: E0.101
  • Ingo H. Kropac, University of Graz: 'Historical Informatics and Documentation': Positioning, Contents and Integration in Academic Course Schemes".
  • Galina Mozhaeva, Tomsk State University: Humanitarian informatics: historical aspect and problems.
  • Quendesa Rugova, American University in Bulgaria: Future role of computer in research.
  • Peter van der Maas, Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie: Ethics in digital photo publication.

• Geographic information systems II. (Chair: Steve Ruggles, University of Minnesota.) Room: E0.101
  • Cathy Fitch, University of Minnesota: The NHGIS (US census tracts) project.
  • Marc St-Hilaire, Université Laval and Byron Moldofsky, University of Toronto: Mapping 20th Century census microdata: The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure cartographic system
  • Garry Keyes & Jens Toftgaard Jensen, University of Aarhus: Mapping Urban History. GIS in Spatial Analyses of a Multi-Source Database
    [ Pdf-file. 1431 kB ]
  • Robert M. Schwartz: Making the Grade: An Application of Digital Elevation Modeling to the Study of Railways and Environment in Victorian England

• Modern methods for ancient history. (Chair: Patt Kelly Hall, University of Minnesota) Room: E0.103
  • Julia Lichter, Center of archaeological research, Moscow: Archaeology - from a working specifier to a working subsystem.
  • Markus Heller, Intelligent Communication Software, Munich: Web Access to Classic Text Retrieval
      [ Pdf-file. 165 kB]
  • Ali Al-Roubaie, Vienna University: "A cognitive process-analysis of a neolithic massacre".

• Round table: Best practices with large databases on historical populations. (Chair: Matthew Woollard, University of Essex.) Room: E0.103
  • Introduction: Kees Mandemakers, Amsterdam and Lisa Dillon, Montreal
  • Comments: Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Tromsø; Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Reykjavik; Marco van Leeuwen, Amsterdam

• Lunch

• Record linkage in history and other disciplines. (Chair: Raivo Ruusalepp.) Room: E0.103
  • Lars Göran Carlsson, Umeå university: Record Linkage on Swedish Parish Registers - Some Methodological Aspects.
  • Ole Martin Sørumgård and Arnfinn Kjelland , Volda College: Putting a main part of Norwegian Local History - the old farm - and genealogical history genre - into the Computer.
  • Aadu Must, University of Tartu: The Estonians' History in the Databases of the Russian Memorial: an Analysis of the Results of Linking the Databases.

• Teaching history with information technology II: Online teaching (Chair: Donald Spaeth, University of Glasgow.) Room: The University Library
  
  • Sergey Kornienko, Perm State University: Teaching the history of Stalinism on the Internet.
      [ PowerPoint presentation. 3342 kB ]   -     [ rtf-file. 86 kB]
    
  • Kåre Andersen, University of Oslo: New media in historical research and teaching.
  • Heinz Berger: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science: Teaching History Online.
  • Andy Carver and Eve A Andersson, Northface University Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Data Integration and Modeling in the Social History Domain: An Open Source Project

• Computing and the archival records. (Chair: Sören Edvinsson, Umeå university). Room: E0.101
  • Lars Nygaard, National Archives, Oslo: Methods and tools for testing, preserving and utilizing electronic archives.
  • Eila Williamson, English Department, University of Southampton: Digitisation of archive material.
  • Rafal Prinke, Polish Academy of Sciences: Digitised sources and research strategies.

• IT as a pedagogical instrument for historians: a means of communication or a source of information? (Responsible: Jan Oldervoll and Donald Spaeth.)
  Panelists:
  Onno Boonstra, Nijmegen
  Evgueni Zlobin, Moscow
  Jan Oldervoll, Bergen
  Don Spaeth, Glasgow
  George Welling, Groningen

• The posters will be presented by their producers in room B1004

17.45 - 18.15 Coffee break

18.15. Parallell sessions

• Text, contents and data processing. (Chair: Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota). Room: E0.103
  • Alexander Kobrinsky, Moscow Lomonosov State University: Speeches of the Leaders of Factions in the State Duma of the Russian Federation (computerised analysis applying TACT).
  • Anastasia Leonova, Moscow State Univ: Content-analysis of the data collected by NKVD among the German POWs in 1945-1949.
  • Boris Grekov, Institute of Balkan and Slavic Studies, Moscow: German Politician Walther Rathenau and his Ideas about Russia 1914-1922. (Content analysis of his political thinking.)
  • Natalia G Shirokova, Yaroslavl State University: Presenting the Winston Churchill diaries
     [ PowerPoint presentation. 1243 kB]

• Population data bases. (Chair: Nanna Floor Clausen, Odense). Room: The University Library
  • Serguei Kachtchenko and Ekaterina Kostrigina, St Petersburg State University Department of History: Population of South Karelia. (1800-1917). Computer Analysis of individual records.
  • Parvin Ahanchi, Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences: The experience of creation databases on Baku populations Censuses 1903 and 1913.
  • Chad Gaffield, University of Ottawa: The IT Challenge of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project

• The Past, Present and Future of Historical Information Science (Responsible: Onno Boonstra and Peter Doorn.) Room: E0.101

09.15 Parallel sessions

• Geographic information systems III. (Chair: Ólöf Gardarsdottir, Statistics Iceland) Room: E0.101
  • George Vascik, Hamilton, Ohio: Sophisticates or Neophytes: Charting the Campaign Behavior of Candidates in Imperial Germany Using Historical GIS.
  • Siegfried Gruber, Karl-Franzen Universität, Graz: Migration in Albania in the early 20th century.
  • Elwin Koster, Groningen University, Mapping and analyzing the urban landscape.

• The encoding of occupational data for comparative, international research. (Responsible: Matthew Woollard, Colchester.) Room: E0.103
  • Mats Hayen, City Archives of Stockholm: The coding of 3.000.000 titles into HISCO at the Stockholm Historical Database.
  • Marco van Leeuwen, Amsterdam: HISCO and the History of Work Website

• Census databases around the North Sea and Atlantic(Responsible: Peter Doorn, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services). Room: B1003
  • Michelle van den Berk and Peter Doorn: A data archiving disaster: The Dutch population census of 1960.
  • Luuk Schreven: Providing access to the Dutch poplation census of 1971.
  • Peter Doorn and Kees Mandemakers: Life courses in context: a Collaboratory based on Dutch population registers and censuses in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota: Integrating international census data: the North Atlantic Population Project.

• Summing up the AHC 2003 conference:
  Hans Jørgen Marker, the Danish Data Archive, Odense, president of the AHC. Room: The University Library

• Lunch

• Annual General Meeting (AGM) Room: The University Library

15.00-21.00

• Excursion and fishing trip by boat to Finnkroken.

Posters. Room: B1004. The producers will be present Friday 16.15 - 18.15

• Alla Polevaya, with co-authors L.Borodkin, I.Garskova, T.Valetov, A.Volodin all from Moscow State University: Internet Resource on the History of Labor Relations in Russian Industry: 1880-1930.
• Anna Olivier, Université Laval, Québec: Geocoding past censuses : 1901 Quebec city census, two examples.
    [ Pdf-file. 3231 kB ]
• Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Statistics Iceland: Saving the Child. The infant mortality decline in Iceland.
• Harald Groven, University of Tromsø: Principles for the cartographic display of historical data
• D M B Rugaimukamu, University of Dar es Salaam: Planning a study of time use in the regions of Tanzania.
• Gunnar Thorvaldsen, University of Tromsø: Infant mortality in the Nordic countries.
   [ PowerPoint presentation. 8185 kB]

The Tower room, building 12

• Meetings of the North Atlantic Population Project - NAPP.

Participants:

• Ólöf Gardarsdottir, Reykjavik
• Lisa Dillon, Montreal
• Evan Roberts, Minneapolis
• Steven Ruggles, Minneapolis
• Matthew Woollard, Colchester
• Chad Gaffield, Ottawa
• Jan Oldervoll, Bergen
• and members of RHD staff