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For almost three years work has been proceeding, intermittently, on the compilation and analysis of a database of Aberdeen University students in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The purpose of the project is threefold: to create a detailed and accessible database of information about the student body, which can then be analysed in order to detect trends in academic patterns, and in geographical and social mobility; to provide instant and comprehensive biographical information on individual students; and to assist the researches of scholars who are preparing publications on various aspects of University life for the University's quincentenary in 1995. Using Cardbox-Plus, five separate faculty versions of the database have been created, and in each case data are entered in up to fifty-two fields, grouped under three broad categories - biographical and background information, university life, and subsequent career. This paper examines the advantages and limitations of Cardbox-Plus as a means of analysing voluminous, mainly textual, information on the origins and experiences of the 6,471 students entered to date.
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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