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Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Brailsford, David F.
Abstract	For much of England and Wales marriage registers began to be kept in 1537. The marriage details were recorded locally, and in longhand, until 1st July 1837, when central records began. All registers were kept in the local parish church. In the period from 1896 to 1922 an attempt was made, by the Phillimore company of London, using volunteer help, to transcribe marriage registers for as many English parishes as possible and to have them printed. This paper describes an experiment in the automated re-typesetting of Volume 2 of the 15-volume Phillimore series relating to the county of Derbyshire. The source material was plain text derived from running Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on a set of page scans taken from the original printed volume. The aim of the experiment was to avoid any idea of labour-intensive page-by-page rebuilding with tools such as Acrobat Capture. Instead, it proved possible to capitalise on the regular, tabular, structure of the Register pages as a means of automating the re-typesetting process, using UNIX troff software and its tbl preprocessor. A series of simple software tools helped to bring about the OCR-to-troff transformation. However, the re-typesetting of the text was not just an end in itself but, additionally, a step on the way to content enhancement and content repurposing. This included the indexing of the marriage entries and their potential transformation into XML and GEDCOM notations. The experiment has shown, for highly regular material, that the efforts of one programmer, with suitable low-level tools, can be far more effective than attempting to recreate the printed material using WYSIWYG software.
Starting Page	29
Ending Page	38
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605585758
DOI	10.1145/1600193.1600202
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2009-09-16
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Hyper-linking Genealogy Troff Re-typesetting Gedcom Ocr Indexing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

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