history_jam

On 19-20 March 2016, Code The City held History Jam the purpse of which was to create new historical open data and use that in innovative ways.

This repo contains much of the output of that weekend.

In the main that was the transcription of 1937 Post Office Business Directories for Central Aberdeen. These are the files titled "1937_ etc"

There is a transcription checklist which shows what was done, cross-referenced - and what had yet to be done.

Additionally there are some odds and ends such as

a partial hunting down of historically significant gigs in city venues and
some attempts to work with OSM IDs, buiding heights and other sources. See this file.

Steve Milne wrote about the challenges of the latter here

Finally, some of this relates to this other repo - see if you can work it out!

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 20 Commits
Converted		Converted
1937_Bon_Accord_Street.tsv		1937_Bon_Accord_Street.tsv
1937_Bridge_Street.tsv		1937_Bridge_Street.tsv
1937_Broad_Street.tsv		1937_Broad_Street.tsv
1937_Crown_Street.tsv		1937_Crown_Street.tsv
1937_Dee_Street.tsv		1937_Dee_Street.tsv
1937_Diamond_Street.tsv		1937_Diamond_Street.tsv
1937_George_Street.tsv		1937_George_Street.tsv
1937_Golden_Square.tsv		1937_Golden_Square.tsv
1937_HK_copy.tsV		1937_HK_copy.tsV
1937_Huntly_Street.tsv		1937_Huntly_Street.tsv
1937_Market_Street.tsv		1937_Market_Street.tsv
1937_NT_copy.tsv		1937_NT_copy.tsv
1937_North_Silver_Street.tsv		1937_North_Silver_Street.tsv
1937_Summer_Street.tsv		1937_Summer_Street.tsv
1937_Transcription_progress.csv		1937_Transcription_progress.csv
1937_Union_Row.tsv		1937_Union_Row.tsv
1937_Union_Street.tsv		1937_Union_Street.tsv
1937_Union_Terrace.tsv		1937_Union_Terrace.tsv
1937_Union_Wynd.tsv		1937_Union_Wynd.tsv
EXAMPLE DATA SHEET - Post Office Directory 1937.tsv		EXAMPLE DATA SHEET - Post Office Directory 1937.tsv
Historic_Aberdeen_gig_list.tsv		Historic_Aberdeen_gig_list.tsv
README.md		README.md
Union_st_OSM_IDS_height_names.tsv		Union_st_OSM_IDS_height_names.tsv
Useful_links.txt		Useful_links.txt
WW2_Bombing_of_Aberdeen.csv		WW2_Bombing_of_Aberdeen.csv

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