{"id":663,"date":"2017-08-10T14:43:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?p=663"},"modified":"2017-08-10T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:43:59","slug":"may-to-july-2017-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/may-to-july-2017-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"May, June and July 2017 updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the Statutes Project in the last three months has mainly consisted of running bash scripts on the OCR of Pickering&#8217;s Statutes At Large, to correct the more obvious errors. It&#8217;s slowly getting into easonable shape. You can find the latest plain text on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Anterotesis\/statutes\/tree\/master\/Pickering\">Statutes Github repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More tables of acts have been added: they now run from 1716 to 1736, with some others up to 1760. The aim is to have a complete set covering the reigns of Georges one and two by autumn. Then some text mining can begin. Again, find them on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Anterotesis\/statutes\/tree\/master\/Tables%20of%20Statutes\">Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Various individual acts have been added to this website, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1737-10-george-2-c-28-the-licensing-act\/\">Licensing Act of 1737<\/a>, the I<a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1719-6-george-1-5-irish-dependency-act\/\">rish Dependency Act<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1782-22-george-3-c-53-repeal-of-the-irish-dependency-act\/\">it&#8217;s repeal<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1783-23-george-3-c-28-irish-appeals\/\">clarification<\/a> of the repeal. Plus the <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/twentieth-century\/1928-18-19-george-5-c-12-equal-franchise-act\/\">Equal Franchise Act of 1928<\/a>, to accompany the recent election and its surrounding ballyhoo.<\/p>\n<p>Also added is <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/seventeenth-century\/1661-13-charles-2-session-2-c-5-tumultuous-petitioning-act\/\">1661 Tumultuous petitioning act<\/a>, taken from the Ruffhead edition of the Statutes at Large, as it does not appear in the Danby Pickering series I have been concentrating on. Consequently, it looks a little different, as the two versions have different standards and protocols.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda for the next couple of months: more automatic OCR correction, and more tables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the Statutes Project in the last three months has mainly consisted of running bash scripts on the OCR of Pickering&#8217;s Statutes At Large, to correct the more obvious errors. It&#8217;s slowly getting into easonable shape. You can find the latest plain text on the Statutes Github repository. More tables of acts have been [&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-663","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\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}