{"id":436,"date":"2016-11-01T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T11:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?p=436"},"modified":"2017-01-05T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:03:41","slug":"october-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/october-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"October Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work on the statutes project in October 2016:<\/p>\n

0: Further OCRing of volumes of statutes. Current status is that the complete set of Danby Pickering’s Statutes At Large, from Magna Carta to 1806 have been put through the machine, as has what I’m calling the Butterworths series, spanning 1807 to 1839. Investigation of the avaiable digitized volumes of statutes suggest that there is a continuous series up until 1875, whereuon coverage gets very patchy. So for all intents and purpose, 1875 is the cut-off point for this project. Just another 35 years worth of statutes left to OCR!<\/p>\n

1: Added two laws collected from around the internet:\u00a0 The Witchcraft Act, 1735<\/a> and The Poor Law, 1601<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2: Added some volumes to the list of Scottish statutory resources<\/a>, and started a page for Acts etc. for Burma \/ Myanmaar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3: A visit to the V & A to see a perpetual motion machine that was not in motion. The promised post on the statute organizing its auction will be coming this month. Promise.<\/p>\n

4:Discussion of getting the statutes on to Wikidata, with Andrew Gray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5: What I’ve been reading (about law). Two short papers recommended by Law & History<\/a>:<\/p>\n