{"id":491,"date":"2017-01-05T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?p=491"},"modified":"2017-01-05T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:27:16","slug":"december-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/december-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"December Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the statutes project in December 2016:<\/p>\n<p>Not much accomplished this month, given the seasonal festivities. However:<\/p>\n<p>0: On a whim I have OCR&#8217;d the 12 volumes collecting the statutes of Ireland, 1310 &#8211; 1800. The raw and very messy OCR can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Anterotesis\/statutes\/tree\/master\/Ireland\">Github<\/a>. As with many of these retrospective collections, they are far from complete, neglecting statutes expired or repealed. I have not decided what to do with them, given that the English \/ British statutes take priority, and are daunting enough a task alone, but I will probably be producing corrected versions of legislation dealing with debt, as and when I need them. After the Union of 1800, Irish legislation is to be found in the main body of United Kingdom law.<\/p>\n<p>1: Added to the general collection of statutes gathered from around the internet: the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/twentieth-century\/1913-3-geo-5-c-4-the-cat-and-mouse-act\/\">&#8216;Cat and Mouse&#8217; act of 1913<\/a>, used against imprisoned Suffragette hunger-strikers.<\/p>\n<p>On the to do list for January: thinking about automatic correction of OCR&#8217;d text, using titles of statutes as metadata, and hopefully some long overdue blog posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the statutes project in December 2016: Not much accomplished this month, given the seasonal festivities. However: 0: On a whim I have OCR&#8217;d the 12 volumes collecting the statutes of Ireland, 1310 &#8211; 1800. The raw and very messy OCR can be found on Github. As with many of these retrospective collections, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-site-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}