Obvious first thought: how to coordinate this with what http://www.bailii.org/ does?
- d. On 3 January 2017 at 14:44, John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list, > > As this is my first post to this list, an intro to start: > I am a student at Sussex, but live in London, writing a PhD on the history > of imprisonment for debt. > I've been doing minor edits and correction on wikipedia for about 4 years, > and attended wikimania at the Barbican a few years back. My user page is: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Technolalia > > 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. > > 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. 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. > > As empire spread English common law around the world, there are many > international aspects to this as well, not least the number of British > statutes concerned with other countries. To this end I've been collecting > sources of Anglophone common law, eg for Barbados: > http://statutes.org.uk/site/collections/international/barbados-law/ > & Jamaica: > http://statutes.org.uk/site/collections/international/jamaican-law/ > And also OCR'd a set of volumes of Irish statutes to 1800: > https://github.com/Anterotesis/statutes/tree/master/Ireland > (Raw OCR, no auto correction carried out) > I'd very much like to see wikipedia develop this legal history as well, but > for my part I have enough to do with the British acts. > > I hope this is of interest to you, > > John > > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
