Automation on Parnassus: Clio - a databank oriented system for historians

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

To support several ongoing research projects, the development of a general purpose system was started 18 months ago at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte in Gottingen. A second version of this system has already been implemented - one which offers the user a simple control language Its most important features are: a flexible input system combining free field and tag/ content representation of data that can be structured in very complex hierarchies; a retrieval system; a system for the interactive coding of historical sources. Various ways of entering codebook like "thesauri" provide a cheap way to recode as often as necessary material of doubtful semantics; a system for nominative record linkage. Name comparisons by two classes of algorithms are supported. The entry of new algorithms to suit the dialects of a particular area is facilitated by a simple set of algorithm defining directives.

Object Details

• Alternative title: Automatisierung auf dem Parnaß: CLIO - eine Datenbank-orientiertes System für Historiker
• ISSN: 0172-6404
• Extent: Seite(n): 40-65
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Historical Social Research, 5(3)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Geschichte ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung ; historische Sozialforschung ; Datenbank ; Software ; Datenaufbereitung ; Methodenentwicklung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Thaller, Manfred
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 1980

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.5.1980.3.40-65
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-52426
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST