Koç University, Department of History, Istanbul, Turkey.
Sci Data. 2024 Jun 3;11(1):570. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03381-2.
In recent decades, the "big microdata revolution" has transformed access to transcribed historical census data for social science research. However, the population records of the Ottoman Empire, spanning Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa, remained inaccessible to the big microdata ecosystem due to their prolonged unavailability. This publication marks the inaugural release of complete population data for an Ottoman urban center, Bursa, derived from the 1839 population registers. The dataset presents originally non-tabulated register data in a tabular format integrated into a relational Microsoft Access database. Thus, we showcase the extensive and diverse data found in the Ottoman population registers, demonstrating a level of quality and sophistication akin to the censuses conducted worldwide in the nineteenth century. This valuable resource, whose potential has been massively underexploited, is now presented in an accessible format compatible with global microdata repositories. Our aim with this dataset is to enable historical demographic studies for the Ottoman realm and beyond, while also broadening access to the datasets constructed by our large research team.
近几十年来，“大数据革命”改变了社会科学研究获取转录历史人口普查数据的方式。然而，由于奥斯曼帝国的人口记录长期无法获取，其涵盖的东南欧、西亚和北非地区仍然无法进入大数据生态系统。本出版物标志着首次发布完整的奥斯曼城市中心布尔萨的人口数据，这些数据来自 1839 年的人口登记册。该数据集以表格形式呈现原本非制表的登记册数据，并集成到关系型 Microsoft Access 数据库中。因此，我们展示了在奥斯曼人口登记册中发现的广泛而多样的数据，其质量和复杂程度与 19 世纪在全球进行的人口普查相当。这个有巨大开发潜力的宝贵资源现在以可访问的格式呈现，与全球微观数据存储库兼容。我们构建这个数据集的目的是为奥斯曼帝国乃至更广泛的地区的历史人口研究提供便利，同时也扩大我们的大型研究团队构建的数据集的使用。
