Project European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net)
On 14-15 June, the kick-off meeting of the European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net) was held in Strasbourg. This project is funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) for a period of five years. EHPS-Net brings together scholars to create a common format for databases containing information on persons, families and households. This format or Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) forms an integrated and joint interface between many European (and non-European) databases. During the project period, the main databases will convert their material to the IDS format. In the meantime, data extraction programs for different types of studies (e.g. on migration and fertility) are prepared in close collaboration between researchers and programmers. The intended system is open, scalable, and extendable. New types of analysis can be introduced by adding new extraction modules. Anyone can contribute an extraction module, which will be peer-reviewed and published in an e-journal.
For more information see the original proposal (.pdf).
The steering committee of the network includes representatives of fourteen countries:
| Nederland |
Professor Kees Mandemakers (voorzitter)
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam en Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication |
| Austria |
Professor Peter Teibenbacher
Karl Franzens University Graz, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Department of Economic, Social and Business History |
| Belgium |
Professor Koen Matthijs
Catholic University Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences, Center for Sociological Research |
| Bulgaria |
Dr. Antoaneta Hristova
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Population and Human Studies, Sofia |
| Croatia |
Professor Alexander Buczynski
Croatian Institute of History, Department of Early Modern History, Zagreb |
| Denmark |
Ms. Nanna Floor Clausen
Danish Data Archives, Odense |
| Finland |
Dr. Marko Lamberg
University of Jyväskylä, Department of History and Ethnology |
| France |
Professor Lionel Kesztenbaum
Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED), Paris |
| Germany |
Professor Joshua Goldstein
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock |
| Lithuania |
Professor Dalia Leinarté Marcinkeviciene
Vilnius University, Gender Studies Centre |
| Norway |
Professor Gunnar Thorvaldsen
University of Tromsø, The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) |
| Romania |
Professor Ioan Bolovan
Babes-Bolyai University, Centre for Population Studies, Cluj-Napoca |
| Sweden |
Professor Anders Brändström
Umeå University, Centre for Population Studies - Demographic Database |
| Switzerland |
Professor Michel Oris
University of Geneva, Department of Sociology, Laboratory of Demography |
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