meet to start editing

Posted by on 29 Sep 2008 in Activity Log

Met with SD and Maria (?sp) to get her started on editing the XML output from my series of regexp processing of the rtf raw data provided by SD. He'll give me list of judges to add to the judges field. Next week we'll set up times for her to come down and start. Primarily she'll be taking records with content in the Trial Notes field and manually placing that into appropriate structures (creating those structures if needbe) in that record.

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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.