Work on the Statutes Project in February 2017:<\/p>\n
0: Numerous corrections to the OCR of the Pickering and Ruffhead editions of the Statutes At Large, uploaded to Github. Still a long way from readable, but getting there.<\/p>\n
1: A new series OCR’d, or at least half a series. The Statutes of the Realm was the most academic, comprehensive and careful collection of acts, the text generally taken from the statute rolls themselves. Consequently, it is a typographical nightmare, and the OCR is\u00a0 worse than for the – admittedly less reliable – series of the Statutes At Large. I have put on Github the text for two volumes (numbers 3 and 5<\/a>) found on Google, and, thanks to the University of Southampton waving their No Derivatives license, the text for volumes 6 to 11<\/a> from the British Parliamentary Publications set, digitized by Soton, on archive.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2: I have also started extracting the tables of acts from the OCR’d volumes, and uploading them to Github<\/a>. The idea is to create a reliable list of legislation enacted, with the long title of each act. Given the length of titles, this will constitute a corpus of sufficient size for text mining and distance reading (I hope). It also constitutes the first step in creating metadata for this project.<\/p>\n 3: Laws collected from around the web:<\/p>\n 1536 27 Henry 8 c.19: An act limiting an order for Sanctuaries and Sanctuary persons<\/a>.<\/p>\n