Visualising the Old Bailey Proceedings as a Digital Panopticon Dataset

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RESEA RCH ASSOCI ATE, DI G I TA L PAN OPTI CO N PROJ EC T

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RI CHARD.WARD@SHEFF I ELD. AC.U K

Research questions 1. The original records

data collection in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

2. The process of digitisation

how has this altered the meanings we derive from our records?

3. Key values

which fields of information will be most useful to us in record linkage?

4. Record linkage

assessing the datasets as a collective

The Old Bailey Proceedings

Visualising patterns in the age data

Visualising patterns in the age data

Visualizing patterns in the occupation data

Visualising patterns in the occupation data

The digitisation process and errors in the data

Applying visualisation techniques to our other datasets