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> On 03 January 2017 at 14:44 John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> My user page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia
>
Hello John - we actually exchanged mails a few years ago
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> My Phd has involved a lot of digging around for historic statutes, and
> this has led to a side project, and one that I hope will work with
> Wikipedia. In short, I have OCRd around 80 volumes of various editions
> of the Statutes At Large and the Public General Statutes. They cover the
> period from Magna Carta, up to 1875 (after which digitized volumes are
> scarce). I believe they contain a more or less complete set of public
> acts from about 1765 to 1875. Although it is obviously alphanumeric soup
> at the moment, I am working on automatic correction of the more obvious
> errors, and on producing decent metadata.
>
Wikisource can host primary rsource material, subject to some caveats.
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> My aims are to make finding legislation easier, to make it easier to
> examine, both by eye and by machine, and to produce reliable metadata
> from and for it. My immediate priority is to extract the tables of
> contents from the collections, and build a reliable list of acts with
> regnal codes and full titles (correctly spelled).
>
> My site for this project:
> http://statutes.org.uk
> and my github repo:
> https://github.com/Anterotesis/statutes
>
> Wikipedia has many useful lists of statutes, some entries on particular
> acts, & in wikicommons a few of the texts. I very much want my work to
> contribute to wikipedia and improve this aspect of it.
>
Well, laudable doesn't begin to cover it.
>
> I've been talking with Andrew Gray, mainly with regard to Wikidata, but
> such is the size
> of the task I think more hands will be needed. & of course I don't want
> to start making great changes without consultation.
>
Wikidata is a good place to develop metadata. It can do that in conjunction with
Wikisource, but I wouldn't want to imply that is the only way.
Charles
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