1. POPP. Project for the optical character recognition of Parisian population censuses • Sandra Brée, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); Thierry Paquet, Université de Rouen, LITIS; François Merveille, GED Campus Condorcet; Thomas Constum, CNRS, LITIS; Nicolas Kempf, CNRS, LITIS; Pierrick Traounez, Université de Rouen, LITIS.

2. Forecasting vital rates from demographic summary measures • Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Jose Manuel Aburto, University of Oxford.

3. Estimating and forecasting age-specific maternal mortality rates in Brazil • Bernardo L. Queiroz, Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais; Marcia C. Castro, Harvard University; Ricardo Pedroso, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.