Record linkage in 18th century VOC slave archives

General info

This repository contains code used during my masters thesis: Record linkage in 18th century VOC slave archives.

Technologies used

All code is written in Python 3.6

Most code is written iside Python notebooks using Jupyter notebook

All requirements can be found in requirements.txt

Top-level directory layout

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├── Annotation                            # Contains most code to annotate matches.
│   ├── Annotation_helper.py              # Contains helper functions used by the other notebooks.
│   ├── Automated_annotation.ipynb        # Contains the automatic record linkage methods using string similarities.
│   ├── Blocking.ipynb                    # Contains tests for blocking parameters.
│   ├── Calculate distances.ipynb         # Calculates string similarities between two datasets.
│   ├── EDA.ipynb                         # Performs Exploratory data analysis of the data and distances and generates figures.
│   ├── Embedding.ipynb                   # Contains the automatic record linkage methods using word embeddings.
├── Figures                               # Contains all figures generated by the code.
├── Models                                # Contains Models generated by the code.
├── requirements.txt                      # Contains all used python packages.
├── LICENSE
└── README.md