Digitising the paper panopticon
Speaker | Claudine Chionh |
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Time | 2009-01-19 13:50 |
Conference | LCA2009 |
Quantitative vs Qualitative research:
- one looks at import events or important people
- other looks at other people, prisoners, slaves,
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Make data available to other researchers.
SQL / Perl /Python / R /etc
Public web interface to database.
Make data available to historians, familiar historians, etc.
Make use of data that has been around for 200 years but not been used significantly.
XML
BaseX: https://www.basex.org Java tool for visualizing large amounts of XML data.
Challenges
Need to convert data from Excel, Access, and GNL formats to XML format.
Contact details
https://www.foundersandsurvivors.org/
Questions
Will raw information be made available? Hopefully, depends on resources and funding.
License? Not decided yet. We don’t own the information, it is public domain. Not all government departments agree. This is a not-for-profit project.