Autor: Peter Christen

Gerrit Bloothooft is researcher at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, The Netherlands. His research interests cover e Humanities in a wide range from language and speech technology, onomastics to historical record linkage. He is a fellow of two institutes of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences. Peter Christen is associate professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research interests are data mining, with a focus on data matching and privacy-preserving data sharing and mining, and he is the author of the Springer book `Data Matching – Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection” (2012).Kees Mandemakers is senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History directing the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. He holds the endowed chair for Large Historical Databases at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and is President of the International Commission for Historical Demography. His research interests are the methodology of large historical databases, social stratification and mobility and social history. Marijn Schraagen is researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research interests range from artificial intelligence and data mining to language technology and psycholinguistics. As an e Humanities researcher he is involved in record linkage and historical population reconstruction.