[open-literature] Open Correspondence - Letters

[James Cummings]

Hiya Iain,

I've not looked at any of it in detail yet (quite busy atm.), 
maybe this weekend.

-James


print.crimes wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Just a quick note to let you know that I've just rewritten the load 
> function and have got all three volumes of letters of Dickens from 
> Gutenberg into the database so we've gone from 300 to 900 letters. It 
> appears to have solved the issue of the first letter being empty as it 
> is cleaner than the last file.
> 
> I've just pushed it to Mercurial as I'm not sure if you've started. It 
> is a simple XML structure but just designed to load the data rather than 
> transform it and to allow other data sets to be entered into the 
> database (since the last load command was very tied into the Gutenberg 
> Dickens file that I was using).
> 
> I'll post some documentation over the weekend if folks are happy with 
> the structure.
> 
> Best, Iain
> 


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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service
OUCS, University of Oxford