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Introducing IRL/Outline aims/work in progress Opportunities for/obstacles to bigger data

Introducing IRL/Outline aims/work in progress Opportunities for/obstacles to bigger data Power/macro-micro datasets. Irish Record Linkage is an IRC funded project running until December 2015

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Introducing IRL/Outline aims/work in progress Opportunities for/obstacles to bigger data

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  1. Introducing IRL/Outline aims/work in progress • Opportunities for/obstacles to bigger data • Power/macro-micro datasets

  2. Irish Record Linkage is an IRC funded project running until December 2015 Collaboration between the University of Limerick, the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy, and Insight@NUI Galway Constructing a Knowledge Platform – Linked Data based on Vital Registration Data (digitised registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths) in order to answer research queries around infant and maternal mortality

  3. ‘But there is no limit to the objectives of government when it is a question of managing a public power that has to regulate the behaviourof subjects’. ‘To govern according to the principle of raison d’État is to arrange things so that the state becomes sturdy and permanent, so that it becomes wealthy, and so that it becomes strong in the face of everything that may destroy it’. The Birth Of Biopolitics, Lectures At The Collège De France edited by Michel Senellart (ed), (New York, 2008), pp. 3. 7.

  4. Efforts to enumerate • Sir William Petty’s survey (1672)1.32m • Hearth Tax (1754) 2.372m • Census 1814 (incomplete) 5.937m • Census 1821 6.8m • Census 1831 7.78m • Census 1841 8.17m • Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act 1863, 26 & 27 Vic, c. 11, and Registration of Marriages (Ireland) Act 1863, 26 & 27 Vic, c. 90

  5. Ireland 2.9 million birth records (1864 to 1912) 4.9 million death records (1864 to 1912) 3.18 million  marriages (1846 – 1912) Dublin 609,720 birth records (1864 to 1912) 537,635 death records (1864 to 1912) 330,605   Marriage records (1845-1913) Is this big data?

  6. GRO Records annotation vs. Data Analysis SEPARATION OF CONCERNS Triplestore 2 Data Analysis • Transformation from one model to • another • SPIN – SPARQL Inference • SWRL / RuleML • SPARQL Construct • … GRO Triplestore

  7. Our primary research questions were: How accurate are historic maternal and infant mortality rates for Dublin? Can Linked Data and semantic web technologies help to bridge disciplinary boundaries? How can official historical data sets contribute to modern-day epidemiological planning?

  8. Competency questions to construct the Ontology

  9. New England Women and Children’s Hospital in Boston founded by Dr Marie E. Zakrzewskain 1862 ‘the only place where a woman –not a pauper, but of narrow means- can receive the comfort and care so necessary at childbirth’ NEHWC, AR, 1864, p. 5. ‘the unmarried women, are saved from moral and physical ruin, by finding here a hand extended, which is willing to lift them up and hold them in usefulness and respect’. NEHWC, AR, 1865, p. 13.

  10. Linked data – opportunities for tranational lifecourse histories Can we measure cultural affect? Power/knowledge paradigm People/place Personal agency Interaction with the state - biopower

  11. Wonderful team: • Dr Sandra Collins, Prof Stefan Decker. • Historians: Breathnach, Dr Brian Gurrin. • Digital archivists: Rebecca Grant, Dolores Grant. • Data Engineers: DrOyaBeyan, DrCristopheDebruyne. • Thanks to KDEG and Dr Natalie Harrower, DRI @IRL_Project http://dri.ie/irish-record-linkage-1864-1913 DRI Presentation

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