Hi Richard, & list,
I don't really have anything actionable right now, given the state of
the texts.
My priority at the moment is to extract the tables of acts at the
beginning of each volume, and thereby build a list of all the
legislation passed, with their *long titles*.
At that point, I'd like to see the Wikipedia lists of legislation
augmented and added to; those pages are pretty variable.
This would also be a good opportunity to turn the lists of acts on
wikipedia into sortable tables, perhaps with a link to the text of the
act where available, and where no dedicated WP page exists for that act.
My own sandbox for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia/sandbox
Perhaps also going through the acts, working out which should have
entries, possibly automating stub creation.
But I'm not very experienced with WP, and certainly don't want to make
decisions off my own bat.
Best,
John
On 05/01/2017 11:05, Richard Nevell wrote:
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.matth...@ntlworld.com
<mailto:charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>> wrote:
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On 03 January 2017 at 14:44 John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com
<mailto:anterote...@gmail.com>> wrote:
<snip>
My user page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia
<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
<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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