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a digital conversion project
Brought to you by the Massachusetts Historical Society
"I have nothing to do here, but to take the Air, enquire for News, talk Politicks and write Letters."
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774
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A project blog tracking the digitization of over 100,000 records of Adams family correspondence— four generations of the letters, diaries and public correspondence of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy and Louisa Adams, and their children and family. You can find project updates as well as documentation on how to convert a fifty-year-old paper catalog into an XML database.
A Note on Terminology
The Adams Papers Catalog is also known as the Control File since it provides intellectual control over a vast archive of historical material. It is also known as the Slip File because the physical file is located on small slips of paper. Many, many slips. These three terms will be used interchangeably throughout this blog.
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Subjects
- About the project (16)
- ADE (1)
- Author (4)
- Checklists (1)
- Codes (3)
- Color (3)
- Copy (2)
- Creating new records (1)
- Database (6)
- Dates (6)
- Document Types (3)
- Encoding Level 1 (6)
- Encoding Level 2 (6)
- Format (3)
- Handwriting (2)
- Initials (2)
- JQA (2)
- Language (1)
- Length (3)
- Master Encoding Guide (13)
- Modern Dates (2)
- Names (4)
- Notes (2)
- Place (5)
- Printed (2)
- Proofreading (7)
- Recipient (4)
- Record ID (3)
- Retaining In-house Info (2)
- Root Tag (1)
- Schedule (4)
- Schema (4)
- Series (3)
- Tag Set (2)
- Title (2)
- Vendor Encoding Guide (19)
- XSL (3)
- Z-slips (2)
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- Miscellaneous Proofreading Rules
- Proofreaders' Marks
- Bracketed Dates
- Encoding Guide. Handwriting
- Encoding Guide. Series
- Encoding Guide. Notes
- Encoding Guide. Printed
- Encoding Guide. Format
- Encoding Guide. Length
- Encoding Guide. Title
- Encoding Guide. Recipient
- Encoding Guide. Author
- Encoding Guide. Codes
- Encoding Guide. Place
- Encoding Guide. Dates
- Encoding Guide. Record ID
- Encoding Guide. Root Tag
- Encoding Guide. Tag Set
- Encoding Guide. Conversion Basics
- Encoding Guide. Introduction
- MHS awarded NHPRC grant
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December
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