Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.7910/DVN/K7YPAF |
Publication Date
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2020-02-03 |
Title
| Historical dataset of administrative units with social-economic attributes for Austrian Silesia 1837 – 1910 |
Author
| Ostafin, Krzysztof (Jagiellonian University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-4426-3211
Kaim, Dominik (Jagiellonian University) - ORCID: 0000-0001-8004-6890
Siwek, Tadeusz (University of Ostrava) - ORCID: 0000-0001-7598-7952
Miklar, Anna (Jagiellonian University) |
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Ostafin, Krzysztof (Jagiellonian University) |
Description
| We present a set of historical data consisting of administrative unit boundaries and exemplary socio-economic attributes for Austrian Silesia, an historical region located in modern Czechia and Poland. The dataset covers nearly 700 administrative unit boundaries on the level of cadastral or political communes and their subparts and was acquired through manual a vectorisation of historical maps (1:28,800) from the period 1837–1841. The local-level units can be easily joined into higher-level divisions such as court or political districts for the period 1837–1910. The data can then be combined with statistical data collected approximately every 10 years for a similar period.The present dataset provides many possibilities for joining a wide range of historical statistical data to better understand various demographic and economic processes based on advanced analyses, e.g., by using GIS. The dataset is an open, vector SHP file that is easy to use in most GIS software and easily convertible to other formats. The shared layers are available on the level of communes and their parts and for districts for seven time periods between the 1830s and 1910. Altogether, 21 layers are available. In the attached dataset, 4 name-related, 4 house-related, 42 demographic-related, 9 farm animal-related and 5 land use-related attributes were selected. (2020-02-03) |
Subject
| Social Sciences; Other |
Keyword
| HGIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_geographic_information_system
GIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system
Austro-Hungarian Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary |
Related Publication
| Ostafin, K., Kaim, D., Siwek, T. et al. Historical dataset of administrative units with social-economic attributes for Austrian Silesia 1837–1910. Sci Data 7, 208 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0546-z doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0546-z https://rdcu.be/b5kif |
Notes
| This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland under the frame of “National Programme for the Development of Humanities” 2015–2020, as a part of the GASID project (Galicia and Austrian Silesia Interactive Database 1857–1910, 1aH 15 0324 83). |
Language
| Czech; English; German; Polish |
Contributor
| Project Member : Adam Szczupak
Project Member : Lidia Zyblikiewicz |
Funding Information
| Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland under the frame of “National Programme for the Development of Humanities”: 1aH 15 0324 83 |
Depositor
| Ostafin, Krzysztof |
Deposit Date
| 2020-02-03 |
Time Period
| Start Date: 1837 ; End Date: 1910 |
Data Type
| Geospatial vector layers |
Series
| We shared the data in open, widely used shapefile format. According to shapefile format specification, boundary geometries are available in a direct access, main file with shp extension. In the shx index file, each record contains the offset of the corresponding main file record from the beginning of the main file. The socio-economic data, as dBASE table with one record per feature, are available in dbf extension. The one-to-one relationship between geometry and attributes is based on a record number. Attribute records in the dBASE file are the same order as records in the main file. Examples of mandatory files for shapefile format: ● SA_1837_1850_CmC.shp; ● SA_1837_1850_CmC.shx; ● SA_1837_1850_CmC.dbf. Examples of other files for shapefile format: ● SA_1837_1850_CmC.cpg — used to specify the code page (only for .dbf) for identifying the character encoding to be used; ● SA_1837_1850_CmC.prj — projection description with text representation of coordinate reference systems; ● SA_1837_1850_CmC.sbn and SA_1837_1850_CmC.sbx — a spatial index of the features; ● SA_1837_1850_CmC.shp.xml — geospatial metadata in XML format. The shapefiles are stored in 21 compressed ZIP archives. The ZIP archives can be opened directly using QGIS open software https://qgis.org or after unpacking using e.g. 7-Zip https://www.7-zip.org/ or WinZip https://www.winzip.com also load with a single command Add Data to ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Pro https://www.arcgis.com. |
Data Source
| In the version 2 of the dataset each shapefile has its own metadata XML file (.shp xml), based on ISO 19139 Metadata Implementation Specification GML 3.2 standard, where all the sources for each field (attribute) are clarified. |