I have completed scraping the following sites:
Legacy of Slavery in Maryland ~12k ads
East Texas Digital Archives ~3k ads
Virginia Geography of Slavery ~4.5k ads
The Texas and Virginia ads contain images and transcripts for all ads while the Maryland site has images and meta-data but no transcript. I will begin the process of having those ads transcribed. My plan is to insert the ads into my server and assign them my own unique ID, then I will send you the ads with my IDs attached, you can reply back to me with a mapping of my IDs to yours.
I have also finished Brown.pdf and will follow the same procedure of assigning an ID and asking for a return ID. I hope to have all the PDFs separated into ads within the next two weeks, hopefully sooner.
French ad translations will hopefully be finished this week.
I’ve reached out to ReadEx for access to their newspaper database, I’ll keep bugging them.
Thanks,
Eric Anderson, CFA
Quantitative Analyst
Skylar Capital Energy Global Master Fund LP
(713) 341-7985 work
(281) 606-9371 cell