F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 Document Model

Source material: handwritten homicide record 2003 : Homicide in Chicago web site F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9

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 F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9

Transformed into an (SPSS) database 2003 : Homicide in Chicago web site F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9

Converted to searchable online databasesearchable online and provided with context: historical, narrative, video and… 2003 : Homicide in Chicago web site F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9

… supporting materialsupporting material 2003 : Homicide in Chicago web site F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9

Process: hand-scanning 2003 : Homicide in Chicago web site F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9

(not searchable) 2003: Homicide in Chicago web site

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 Mass resurrection of archived material…either digitized by others…archived material 2008: Florence Kelley web site

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 …or by NU with automated scanning (300-page book in 30 minutes)… 2008: Florence Kelley web site

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 …then all 25,000 pages processed with optical character recognition (OCR) software…25,000 pages 2008: Florence Kelley web site

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 …effectively recreating the Homicide site’s searchable database… 2008: Florence Kelley web site

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 Example: enter search term South Water Street 2008: Florence Kelley web site

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 Example: Located within OCR file that’s mapped to image file 2008: Florence Kelley web site It is proposed to extend the freight lines sion-boat piers, as well as the recreation piers it is probable that many of the present freight their functions as at present, except as to goods intended solely for outside trade. As they are be used for the city-consumption trade, and to others who cannot afford to operate separate tunnel railroad. At the present time much of the near-by is brought into the city on wagons which load the general market at South Water Street or freightage can be done cheaper to the truck far by cars run at night on the trolley and elevated morning these roads should render this impo beds due to the eliminations of heavy teaming of the above suggestion. Besides the conveni sidered, and also the saving of time and the

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 Example: Final result served up in Flash viewer (pg 68)Final result 2008: Florence Kelley web site

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 History of Homicide web siteHistory of Homicide web site: database + selected cases + documents + historical context 2008: Florence Kelley web site Coherence

F l o r e n c e K e l l e y I n C h i c a g o – 9 9 Florence Kelley web site:web site “database” + narrative + documents + historical contextdatabasenarrativedocumentshistorical context 2008: Florence Kelley web site