revised data and schema work

Posted by on 29 Feb 2008 in Activity Log

Got new version of 1790s data files from Simon. Spent good part of this week rewriting the regular expressions and rationalizing that process. Added more steps near beginning involving manually editing small numbers (less than 20 of 750) of records that had various kinds of syntactic irregularities (largely inconsistent white-spaces) so that subsequent regular expressions would be easier. Also wrote a relax ng schema for each step in the 7 stage process of generating the xml data files so that I could test for syntactic irregularities even if only crudely.

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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.