Capital Trials at the Old Bailey

Simon Devereaux has approximately 10,000 records of people convicted in potentially capital cases between 1710 and 1840 in London heard at the Old Bailey court. This project will create a web-based database which will allow interested researchers and members of the public to compose queries on that data (e.g. women charged with robbery 1710-1720). It must be able to support a range of queries and produce output allowing researchers to identify trends in judicial practice over that time.

Capital Trials at the Old Bailey

Archives for: "February 2011"

1800s data proofed

Changes to SQL structure for respites, outcomes, trials

Search saving

Visualization/chart plotting progress

Flot visualization tool chosen

New XML file sent to SD for proofing

Meeting with SD about XML structure and changes to data gathering

Another Javascript visualization tool enters the ring

Investigating Javascript visualization tools

Web-based search progressing

XML file sent to SD for proofing

XML validation

XPath gotcha with empty()

Refining outcomes and outcome groups