Hello John, That's a phenomenal resource. You mention that more hands might be needed, do you have a particular plan for adding info to the Wikimedia sites?
Regards, Richard Nevell On 3 January 2017 at 15:41, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld. com> wrote: > > On 03 January 2017 at 14:44 John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <snip> > > My user page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia > > Hello John - we actually exchanged mails a few years ago > > > 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. > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > -- Richard Nevell Project Coordinator Wikimedia UK - sign up to our newsletter <http://eepurl.com/cnYOw5> +44 (0) 20 7065 0921 <020%207065%200921> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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