Hi Gwyneth,
I’ll put your name on the list, thanks.
Enjoy Somerset – hope the weather is good there too.
Chris
Chris Shepheard
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Subject: [heraldnegindex] Re: Herald
Hi Chris, I could help with proof reading if that's any use? I'm still looking
after a very sweet cat in Somerset although she is beginning to realise she's
being looked after by an imposter and I'm sure she is wondering where her owner
is :( !
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Date: 22/03/2022 17:25 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: [heraldnegindex] Re: Herald
Hi Karen and everyone else too,
It was great to finally get to the next lot of negatives requested by enquirers
and I’m pleased to say that we now have a good system which makes it easier to
replace the negatives in the right place once they have been scanned! The
sticky notes certainly helped today.
As I said the other night, the transcribing is rapidly coming to an end for the
negatives but I think, if you are all interested there will be many more
opportunities to get involved as the main project gets into motion which I
think is getting much nearer now we have appointed an embryo committee.
However in the sorter term I wonder if you would all like to take on the
searches for enquirers that I have been doing up until now? Some of you have
seen how it works and I am sure you will find looking at the actual newspapers
very interesting. Going forward we have to be careful as some of the ‘papers
are in a very delicate condition however I envisage there will still need to be
some physical searching for a limited number of enquirers. (In the main we are
going to start researchers to the British Newspaper Archive in London where
they can go and undertake the search themselves – this will ensure the
preservation of the Herald’s own copies so that the digital images we produce
will be of the best quality. Obviously once the digitisation is complete we
will no need to handle the physical copies at all and searching will be much
quicker.)
If you are interested in helping with the searches please let me know and we’ll
set up a sort of rota so everyone gets a chance.
As Karen says the database which now totals over 93,000 entries does inevitably
contain a number of typos and errors which it would be good to reduce by some
form of proof reading (I don’t think we’d ever be able to eliminate them
totally – just look at Ancestry!)
For your interest you can find the latest version at
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZ38y4XZ6mbfsPShyPmcgFAIDqqRp7xx4Bfy ;
along with the reader software for Datapower which will run on all versions of
Windows up to and including Windows 10 (there currently seems to be a problem
with 11). But also there you will see a file called Version44.csv. If you
download this and double click it you will find it loads into Excel and you can
alter the columns to make all the text appear quite easily. It should also be
searchable with the normal “Find” tool.
If you would like to join in the challenge to proof read the database please
let me know too. However please don’t start yet! It is too big a task for one
person and we don’t want to end with multiple individual copies of the file all
with different corrections. Please wait for a little while and I will speak to
the project technical consultant (Hilary Roberts) to see if we can find an
online tool that will allow everybody to read and correct a single online copy
of the file (everybody at the same time too possibly!) That will ensure that we
end up with a single corrected file with each correction highlighted and
attributed to a specific proof-reader so that we can ensure we have the best
possible version for the final database.
The steering committee is starting to meet monthly now so the project will
start to move forward more rapidly and we hope soon to have a public meeting to
which all potential participants will be invited, including yourselves and all
those that expressed an interest to the Herald back in 2020 before the pandemic
struck.
Thank you for everything you all have done so far and I look forward
introducing you to the next stages as suggested above. Actually looking at
newspapers and negatives I hope makes the project become far more alive.
Chris
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Subject: [heraldnegindex] Herald
Hi Chris
It was good to catch up with you this morning and visit the photo archives.
I offered to help proof read the Herald data we've all worked on for the last
year or so (inevitable typos would be my forte rather than misspelled location
names)and it occurs that perhaps there are others who would also like to do so.
By the way you mentioned that you would circulate a link to the latest version.
Thanks Karen
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