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HEERMA VAN VOSS, Lex: Petitions in Social History. International Review of Social History Supplements, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, 234 pp. Dentro de los suplementos de la International Review of Social History el historiador holandés Lex Heerma van Voss, cuya firma es conocida en las revistas especializadas españolas, ha coordinado la edición de este libro, que recoge diez contribuciones de otros tantos autores acerca del ejercicio del derecho de petición en coyunturas y localizaciones históricas bien diferentes, que van desde la Edad Media temprana al periodo de la Guerra Fría y que abarcan desde diversos estados del continente europeo, a las colonias británicas en América del Norte, la India colonial o a la China nacionalist

Fair and Tender Data: The FAIRness of Four Databases With Historical Individual Life Course Data Tested

Four databases with data on individual historical life courses are tested for FAIRness: the TRA, Umeå, HSN and IPUMS databases. All databases make their data much more Findable than they were in the original sources. But as databases, they are best findable if their name is a unique acronym, and if different sub-datasets all use that same acronym. Sensitive data have to be protected. Two databases make anonymous data sets or those only containing information on deceased individuals Accessible without any formalities, and other databases could follow this example. To increase Interoperability a large number of tools are offered by the databases. Reusability is among the raisons d’être of these databases