Parsing the index and digest structures for a volume of the 1930s WPA project Annals of Cleveland, and presenting them in a Hugo site. See https://www.wallandbinkley.com/projects/2019/annals-of-cleveland/ for the current output.

To run

• Clone this repository
• Install the Hugo theme "techdoc", which is in a Git submodule: git submodule update
• Save the full text from HathiTrust into the source directory as 1864.html. You will need to be logged in to HathiTrust; otherwise this file will not contain the full text of the volume.
• Install hugo following instructions at gohugo.io
• Install ruby dependencies: bundle install
• Run ./process.rb ./source/1864/1864-corrected.html - this parses the source file and populates the hugo/content and hugo/data directories```
• Start hugo: cd to the hugo directory and run hugo serve -D
• Visit the local site at http://localhost:1313/projects/2019/annals-of-cleveland

To Do

• improve the regex in lib/abstract.rb to handle more ocr variants
• extend the regex and the hugo output to handle multi-column references
• learn more about hugo and improve the implementation
• etc. etc.

Notes

Annals of Cleveland 1864

vol. 47 pt. 1 (1937)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858046133199&view=1up&seq=7

• TOC: image 11
• Classification Lists: image 17-23
• Abstracts: p.1-361
• Chronological Index: pp. 363-376
• Index: 377-444

Newspapers:

L: Cleveland Leader https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035143/

Markup

Mark the sections of the volumes to show where they begin and end.

• #START_CLASSIFICATION, #END_CLASSIFICATION
• #START_ABSTRACTS, #END_ABSTRACTS
• #START_CHRON, #END_CHRON
• #START_TERMS, #END_TERMS