Abstract
This project will create an intellectual exemplar for the role of data mining in an important historical discipline – the history of crime – and illustrate how the tools of digital humanities can be used to wrest new knowledge from one of the largest humanities data sets currently available: the Old Bailey Online.
Principal Investigators
Dan Cohen, George Mason University, US, NEH
Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire, UK, JISC
Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, CAN, SSHRC
Additional Key Participants: The National Archives (United Kingdom), McMaster University, the Open University, Amherst College, University of Sheffield, Trent University, and the University of Western Ontario
