New data format: Excel spreadsheet

Posted by on 06 Jun 2011 in Notes

Received 1785-89 data from SD, which he put into an Excel spreadsheet. This will be the standard way for him to give us data from now on. I will be writing a new raw-to-XML procedure to handle the import process shortly. Hopefully this method will be less painful and time-consuming than the previous method, which began with a MS Word doc.

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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.