Saturday, November 22 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Dearborn 2 (7th Floor)

Session 143
Digitizing Analog History

Chair: Diana Magnuson, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Todd K. Gardner, U.S. Census Bureau

1. Using U.S. Census Bureau Documentation to Revisit and Rebuild 20th Century Data ComplexitiesDavid Bleckley, University of Michigan; John Sullivan, Census Bureau; Douglas Rosin, University of Michigan.

2. Improving Historical Census Transcriptions: A Machine Learning ApproachChristian Møller Dahl, University of Southern Denmark; Sam Hwang, University of British Columbia; Torben Johansen, University of Southern Denmark; Munir Squires, University of British Columbia.

3. Development of Machine Readable Tabular Census Data, 1955-1975Diana Magnuson, University of Minnesota; David Van Riper, Minnesota Population Center; Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota.

4. “Tables Are Tricky”. Testing Text Encoding Initiative (Tei) Guidelines for Fair Upcycling of Digitised Historical Statistics.Gabi Wuethrich, University of Zurich.

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