{"title":"Introduction: How European Players Captured the Computer and Created the Scenes","authors":"G. Alberts, R. Oldenziel","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4471-5493-8_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5493-8_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"6 ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50942895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational (Dis)Connection in Localizing Personal Computing in the Netherlands, 1975–1990","authors":"F. Veraart","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4471-5493-8_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5493-8_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"70 ","pages":"25-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50942939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconciling cross-sectional and longitudinal measures of fertility, Quebec 1890-1900.","authors":"Patricia A Thornton, Danielle Gauvreau","doi":"10.3366/hac.2002.14.1-2.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/hac.2002.14.1-2.129","url":null,"abstract":"In the absence of vital registration, studies of the onset and early phases of the fertility transition in North America have been seriously hampered and yet the seemingly early timing of the decline, the multi-ethnic nature of the population and continuous flow of immigrants from Europe suggest that North America has much to offer to this debate. This paper is primarily methodological drawing on parallel data for the city of Montreal and surrounding region. By reconciling cross-sectional census measures of fertility using the own-child methods (1901) with those derived from a longitudinal ten-year panel (1891-1901) using family reconstitution, it exposes some of the weaknesses and the potentials of the two methods most often currently used and the advantages of combining methods. Own-children measures of marital fertility are seriously affected by significant local differences in infant survival between rural and urban areas and between cultural groups as well as by residual effects of duration and timing of marriage, while small-scale longitudinal studies in complex environments cannot always render reliable results for all sub-populations not can they necessarily be 'scaled up.' They suggest that national and even regional averages of fertility may conceal large diversity, which in turn raises questions about the existence of any single transition with uniform characteristics and timing, or universal cause. Instead we argue different groups in different environments may actually have been fine-tuning their fertility behaviour to compensate for the differential effects of mortality through adjustments to both marriage and fertility within marriage.","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"14 1-2","pages":"129-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26574906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The measurement of interwar poverty: notes on a sample from the second survey of York.","authors":"M Freeman, Z Bliss","doi":"10.3366/hac.2001.13.2.199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/hac.2001.13.2.199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"13 2","pages":"199-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40416075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedigree in the machine: the past and the future of genealogical computing.","authors":"R T Prinke","doi":"10.3366/hac.2000.12.2.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/hac.2000.12.2.141","url":null,"abstract":"all of which are dominated by amateur family historians, sometimes with a good background in computer science but not necessarily with an equally good understanding of historical research methodology. This lack of interest cannot be easily explained, especially as genealogy should be of almost universal interest because its findings are used by historians in many other historical subdisciplines. Discussing political history without recourse to royal genealogies is certainly impossible","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"12 2","pages":"141-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26114957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Portsmouth Voluntary Hospitals Database: using PERL to achieve automatic linkage of scanned text files to an existing database.","authors":"S Murnion, J Mohan, M Gorsky","doi":"10.3366/hac.1999.11.3.195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/hac.1999.11.3.195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"11 3","pages":"195-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21987572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using multi-media to enhance history education: Glasgow, A Tale of Two Cities? and Tiree, Famine and Clearance 1840-1900","authors":"P. Hillis","doi":"10.3366/hac.1997.9.1-3.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/hac.1997.9.1-3.17","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in information technology raise issues central to history education. Debates have focused on how pupils learn history by emphasising the development of critical thinking which in turn provides the basis of a theoretical framework for the use of IT in history. Martyn Wild identifies seven areas of teaching and learning enhanced through IT ranging from child-centered learning to pedagogy. James Schick argues that appropriate software brings out the absorbing, fascinating and enjoyable nature of history. This article discusses how multi-media computer programs, Glasgow, A Tale of Two Cities? and Tiree, Famine and Clearance 1840-1900 enhance the delivery of history in Scottish Primary and Secondary Schools within the criteria established by Martyn Wild. These programs relate to recent curricular changes in Scotland and help satisfy current demands for more Scottish history within overall history syllabuses. Moreover, it will be argued that appropriate software motivates pupils and enhances the central role of the classroom teacher.","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"49 1","pages":"17-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74073739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Height Samples with Shortfall: A Computational Approach","authors":"Markus Heintel","doi":"10.3366/HAC.1996.8.1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/HAC.1996.8.1.24","url":null,"abstract":"Research in economic history frequently uses human height as a proxy for net nutrition. This anthropometric method enables historians to measure time trends and differences in nutritional status. However, the most widely used data sources for historical heights, military mustering registers, cannot be regarded as random samples of the underlying population. The lower side of the otherwise normal distribution is eroded by a phenomenon called shortfall, because shorter individuals are under-represented below a certain threshold (truncation point). This paper reviews two widely used methods for analyzing historical height samples with shortfall - the Quantile Bend Estimator (QBE) and the Reduced Sample Maximum Likelihood Estimator (RSMLE). Because of the drawbacks of these procedures, a new computational approach for identifying the truncation point of height samples with shortfall, using density estimation techniques, is proposed and illustrated on an Austrian dataset. Finally, this procedure, combined with a truncated regression model, is compared to the QBE to estimate the mean and the standard deviation. The results demonstrate the deficiencies of the QBE again and cast a good light on the new method.","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"44 1","pages":"24-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78135769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of a Geographical Information System in Historical Demography","authors":"David J. Graham","doi":"10.3366/HAC.1995.7.1.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/HAC.1995.7.1.50","url":null,"abstract":"The plethora of digital data has caused a dramatic rise in the use of demographic databases for the analysis of modern populations. This paper discusses the use of an analogue and digital dataset within the framework of a proprietary Geographical Information System (ARC/INFO) in recent historical demography.","PeriodicalId":81446,"journal":{"name":"History & computing","volume":"2011 1","pages":"50-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86342778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}