Project: Marriage Mobility Visualization for Genealogical Data
Description
The Brabant Historical Information Center (BHIC) collects various types of genealogy data in the province of Noord Brabant. The datasets they collect contain the records of different events in one’s life, including birth, marriage, military, prison, residence register and death. And for each kind of event, the event information, such as event date and event place, and the information of people who involve in this event, such as birth date and birth place, are recorded. In this way, the mobility patterns, which refers to the trace of one’s life, can be observed. Currently, except for searching and viewing the related records in a textual way, BHIC has no better way to let the users explore the data. In this case, the users are not convenient to match the place names in the datasets to the corresponding geographical locations. Besides, mobility patterns are difficult to be distilled from textual records. Simultaneously, analysis of the multiple attributes of people, such as birth date and gender, can not be provided by searching. Therefore, BHIC is interested in having a web tool for both the public and experts to explore the geographical data in a more interactive and efficient way.
Details
- Student
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JXJinfan Xu
- Supervisor
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Huub van de Wetering
- Secondary supervisor
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Michael Burch
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- Thesis