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Document Model

Source material: handwritten homicide record

2003: Homicide in Chicago web site


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



Transformed into an (SPSS) database



Converted to searchable online database

and provided with context: historical, narrative, video and…



http://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/

http://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/

… supporting material



Process: hand-scanning




(not searchable)



Mass resurrection of archived material…either digitized by others…

2008: Florence Kelley web site


…or by NU with automated scanning (300-page book in 30 minutes)…



…then all 25,000 pages processed with optical character recognition (OCR) software…



…effectively recreating the Homicide site’s searchable database…



Example: enter search term South Water Street



Example: Located within OCR file that’s mapped to image file


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


Example: Final result served up in Flash viewer (pg 68)



History of Homicide web site: database + selected cases + documents + historical context


Coherence


Florence Kelley web site: “database” + narrative + documents + historical context


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