Towards the Extraction of Statistical Information from Digitised Numerical Tables: The Medical Officer of Health Reports Scoping Study

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage Pub Date : 2019-05-08 DOI:10.1145/3322905.3322932

C. Clausner, A. Antonacopoulos, C. Henshaw, J. Hayes

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Numerical data of considerable significance is present in historical documents in tabular form. Due to the challenges involved in the extraction of this data from the scanned documents it is not available to researchers in a useful representation that unlocks the underlying statistical information. This paper sets out to create a better understanding of the problem of extracting and representing statistical information from numerical tables, in order to enable the creation of appropriate technical solutions and also for collection holders to appropriately plan their digitisation projects to better serve their readers. To that effect, after an initial overview of current practices in digitisation and representation of historical numerical data, the authors' findings are presented from a scoping exercise of the Wellcome Library's high-profile collection of the Medical Officer of Health reports. In addition to users' perspectives and a detailed examination of the nature and structure of the data in the reports, a study of the extraction and integration of the data is also described.

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从数字化数字表中提取统计信息:卫生医务人员报告范围研究

相当重要的数字数据以表格形式出现在历史文献中。由于从扫描文件中提取这些数据所涉及的挑战，研究人员无法以有用的表示方式解锁潜在的统计信息。本文旨在更好地理解从数字表中提取和表示统计信息的问题，以便能够创建适当的技术解决方案，也使馆藏持有人能够适当地规划他们的数字化项目，以更好地为读者服务。为此，在对数字化和历史数字数据表示的当前实践进行初步概述之后，作者的发现来自于对惠康图书馆高调收集的卫生医疗官员报告的范围界定。除了用户的观点和对报告中数据的性质和结构的详细检查之外，还描述了对数据的提取和集成的研究。

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