Digitising Scotland
The Digitising Scotland project digitised the historic vital events records (births, marriages and deaths) for people living in Scotland (1855-1973). This project is now closed.
Prior to Digitising Scotland these records were kept as indexed images accessible from Scotland’s People, but this meant that to extract data for research projects a researcher must first search for an individual record by name, and then manually transcribe the information they needed (eg cause of death, occupation, etc). This made any large-scale research project impossible – a situation that the Digitising Scotland project has changed.
Work Packages
The project contained 4 work packages:
- Digitising birth, marriages and death vital events records from 1855 to 1973.
- Standardising and coding occupation descriptions to the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO).
- Standardising and coding all deaths to International Classification of Disease – 10 (ICD-10).
- Linking address information to consistent geographies through time.
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