Approved
Fuzzy Matching and Merging of Family Trees using a Graph Database
Hampus Lundberg (2008)
Start
2014-01-21
Presentation
2015-01-15 16:00
Location:
E:3139
Finished:
2015-03-19
Master's thesis:
Abstract
<b>Keywords:</b> Genealogy, graphs, graph databases, AI, classification and fuzzy matching <p> Föreningen DIS - Datorhjälp i släktforskningen (http://www.dis.se/) is exploring the possibility of building build a Nationwide Genealogical Database (RGD) over Sweden's historical population. It will contain basic data about individuals (name, birth, marriage, death) and their family relationships (father, mother, married, children). The idea is that raw data should come from different genealogists and then be matched to and merged into a unified database -RGD. So RGD consists partly of an aggregated (synthetic) individuals and also of the underlying individuals. <p> Put simply, you should take a number of family trees, match and merge them into a graph database. The interesting problems arising in matching and merging of incomplete/incorrect data is the subject of this thesis.
Supervisor: Anders Ardö (EIT)
Examiner: Mats Cedervall (EIT)