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Using 
Zotero 
and
 TAPoR 
on
 the
 Old
 Bailey
 Proceedings:
 Data
 Mining
 with
 Criminal
 Intent


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Title

Using 
Zotero 
and
 TAPoR 
on
 the
 Old
 Bailey
 Proceedings:
 Data
 Mining
 with
 Criminal
 Intent


Project Item Type Metadata

Title

Using 
Zotero 
and
 TAPoR 
on
 the
 Old
 Bailey
 Proceedings:
 Data
 Mining
 with
 Criminal
 Intent


Description

The With Criminal Intent project will create an intellectual exemplar for the role of data mining in an important historical discipline–the history of crime–and illustrate how the tools of digital humanities can be used to wrest new knowledge from one of the largest humanities data sets currently available: the Old Bailey Online. It will create a seamlessly connected environment, the Newgate Commons, in which scholars can use data mining techniques to select themed texts from the 120 million words of trial records contained in the Old Bailey, and employ these texts as the basis of a study collection in Zotero where they will in turn be available for analysis using TAPoR tools (including quantitative text analysis and visualization). In the process, this project will showcase the integration of online textual resources with bibliographical and analytical tools emerging from Digital Humanities.

Start Date

01/01/2010

End Date

03/31/2011

Director(s)

Dan Cohen
Tim Hitchcock
Geoffrey Rockwell

Staff Members

Sean Takats

Content Experts

Paul Carter
Hugh Couchman
Clive Emsley
Margaret Hunt
Michael Pidd
Jörg Sander
Robert Shoemaker
Kevin Sienna
Stéfan Sinclair
William J. Turkel

Deliverables

1. A
 tested
 model
 for
 how
 large‐scale data collection and visualization 
tools 
can 
interoperate.

2. Three
 model
 tools
 at 
different 
levels 
(corpus,
 collection
 management, 
and 
analytics)
 that
 can
 be 
used
 in
 new
 configurations 
by 
other 
projects.

3. A
 preliminary
 study
 in
 the 
history
 of 
criminality 
in 
Britain 
that 
exemplifies 
how
 the 
new
 research 
environment 
can 
be 
used.


Funder

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
National Endowment for the Humanities
Joint Information Systems Committee

Funding Amount

$100,000

Partners

Humanities Research Institute
Old Bailey Online
Text Analysis Portal for Research

Technology Used

Zotero, Voyeur

Files

AM573_AW-3.jpg

Collection

Citation

“Using 
Zotero 
and
 TAPoR 
on
 the
 Old
 Bailey
 Proceedings:
 Data
 Mining
 with
 Criminal
 Intent
,” RRCHNM20, accessed April 18, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/229.

Item Relations

This Item foaf:fundedBy Item: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
This Item foaf:fundedBy Item: National Endowment for the Humanities
This Item foaf:fundedBy Item: Joint Information Systems Committee
This Item Partner Item: Humanities Research Institute
This Item Partner Item: Old Bailey Online
This Item Partner Item: Text Analysis Portal for Research
This Item Staff Item: Roy Rosenzweig
This Item Staff Item: Sean Takats