Conflating Historical Population Statistics Using a Historical GIS with a Flexible Semantic Model for Premodern Administrative Units in the Low Countries: The (Re)counting the Uncounted and Historical Atlas of the Low Countries Projects
November 2023
Pages 56 - 59
Abstract
This paper describes the iterative process of conflating historical population statistics for the medieval and early modern Low Countries. This process improves the quality of analyses of the data by adding fine-grained geospatial definitions to the historical observations, gradually refining the underlying historical GIS itself too: both intertwined processes benefit from each other. A flexible semantic model for premodern administrative units in the Low Countries is introduced to accommodate the continuous refinements, while maintaining backward compatibility.
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