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F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o 1 8 9 1 – 9 9
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Source material: handwritten homicide record
2003: Homicide in Chicago web site
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January 17, 1880 Robinson, Lottie, keeper of house of ill fame, 75 W. Kinzie St., shot dead at that place by George W. Stratton, who was arrested and sent to Pen. (Central Detail).Case number: 1995
Keystroked into a text document
2003: Homicide in Chicago web site
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Transformed into an (SPSS) database
2003: Homicide in Chicago web site
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Converted to searchable online database
and provided with context: historical, narrative, video and…
2003: Homicide in Chicago web site
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… supporting material
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Process: hand-scanning
2003: Homicide in Chicago web site
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F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o 1 8 9 1 – 9 9
(not searchable)
2003: Homicide in Chicago web site
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Mass resurrection of archived material…either digitized by others…
2008: Florence Kelley web site
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…or by NU with automated scanning (300-page book in 30 minutes)…
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…then all 25,000 pages processed with optical character recognition (OCR) software…
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…effectively recreating the Homicide site’s searchable database…
2008: Florence Kelley web site
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Example: enter search term South Water Street
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Example: Located within OCR file that’s mapped to image file
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It is proposed to extend the freight linession-boat piers, as well as the recreation piersit is probable that many of the present freighttheir functions as at present, except as to goodsintended solely for outside trade. As they arebe used for the city-consumption trade, and toothers who cannot afford to operate separatetunnel railroad. At the present time much of the near-byis brought into the city on wagons which loadthe general market at South Water Street orfreightage can be done cheaper to the truck farby cars run at night on the trolley and elevated morning these roads should render this impobeds due to the eliminations of heavy teamingof the above suggestion. Besides the convenisidered, and also the saving of time and the
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Example: Final result served up in Flash viewer (pg 68)
2008: Florence Kelley web site
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History of Homicide web site: database + selected cases + documents + historical context
2008: Florence Kelley web site
Coherence
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Florence Kelley web site: “database” + narrative + documents + historical context
2008: Florence Kelley web site
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