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The Joys and Sorrows of Data Normalization: Working with Sources from the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, XVII–XVIII Centuries

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This paper presents the methodological workflow developed for HOLYLAB-DB, a digital database based on the account extracts sent by the commissariats of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to Rome between 1654 and 1750, and offers a transparent model for the curation of complex historical datasets.

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