OpenRefine to make sense of historical transcribed records: studying the inhabitants of Copenhagen through the 1885 census

Instructors: Muhamed Fajkovic, Lars Kjær and Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios

Are you interested in taking advantage of the millions of records of historical information already available for historical research? Are you unsure about how to get started in dealing with them and making sense of the variety of ways people describe their lives? This 3-hour workshop will introduce you to how you can use Open Refine to make sense, clean and analyze, freely available transcribed sources available at the Danish Demographic Database to do historical research. In it, we will use Open Refine to study the inhabitants of Copenhagen according to the census of 1885 and you will learn how to deal a large amount of information on people on historically meaningful information.

• Introduction to data historical and contemporary data for Humanists at Rigsarkivet contained at the Danish Demographic Database
• Introduction to the use of Open Refine for cleaning and managing historical data.
• An exercise to clean and visualize data to solve a research question using the fully transcribed census of Copenhagen in 1885

Read more about the study groups of HUMlab here: https://kub.kb.dk/humlab/study_groups

Only 15 seats so register now!