{"id":71,"date":"2025-11-03T08:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:49:28","slug":"methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-2-background-color has-background\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PFF team gathers their information from federal and state archivists and county clerks. The team then goes through boxes of files and bound volumes page by page to locate the habeas petitions. These petitions are then photographed and scanned. After that the information is encoded in an Airtable interface that was developed by the team, that people are then able to access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-2-background-color has-background\">Encoding and Searching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As previously mentioned when talking about tools, the PFF team uploads the digitized archival materials to an Airtable database that allows different pieces to be tagged with information like race, sex, location, decade etc. The database was designed specifically so users can filter specific information or certain features of cases. Since the project focuses on minorities and their lack of access to a just legal system, being able to filter out by sex and race is important for researchers (and average people viewing the website as well) to add understanding and nuance to their research. By encoding these variables separately, the data becomes searchable on a granular level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-03-at-3.44.52-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Example of the filter system working on the website<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Documentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The methodology is documented, but not elaborated on very clearly. There is a small section on the methodology written in The Journal for Digital Legal History, but the individual steps are not thoroughly explained. The methodology is not explained on the site itself. More work is needed to meet best practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The PFF team gathers their information from federal and state archivists and county clerks. The team then goes through boxes of files and bound volumes page by page to locate the habeas petitions. These petitions are then photographed and scanned. After that the information is encoded in an Airtable interface that was developed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/KedershaCorpus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}