This training_set_v2_readme.txt file was generated on 20220207 by Amanda Henley
 
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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title: 
On the Books Training Set
 
2. Author Information 
 
  Principal Investigator Contact Information
        Name: Amanda Henley
           Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
           Email: amanda.henley@unc.edu
 
  Co-Principal Investigator Contact Information
        Name: Matt Jansen
           Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
           Email: mtjansen@email.unc.edu

  Creator Contact Information
        Name: Lorin Bruckner 
           Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
           Email: lorin.bruckner@unc.edu

  Creator Contact Information
        Name: William Sturkey 
           Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
           Email: wsturkey@live.unc.edu

  Creator Contact Information
        Name: Kimber Thomas 
           Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
           Email: ksymone@live.unc.edu

  Additional Contributor: James Dick.
 
3. Date of data collection
	Primary Source materials dated 1866-1967. 
	Laws for the training set were identified 2019-2021
 
4. Geographic location of data collection: North Carolina
 
5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:
	Creation of this corpus was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the first cohort for Collections as Data: Part to Whole, the Association of Research Libraries' Venture Fund Award, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries' IDEA Action Fund. 
 
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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. File List
training_set_v2.csv is a CSV file of 1,785 laws identified as either "Jim Crow" (jim_crow=1) or "Not Jim Crow" (jim_crow=0).

2. Are there multiple versions of the dataset?  No.
   
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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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1. Description of methods used for collection, generation, and processing of data: 
The training set was created by using multiple sources:

[1] Murray, Pauli. 1951. States’ Laws on Race and Color: And Appendices Containing International Documents, Federal Laws and Regulations, Local Ordinances and Charts. Cincinnati: Woman’s Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions and Church Extension, Methodist Church.

[2] Paschal, Richard. 2020. Jim Crow in North Carolina The Legislative Program from 1865 to 1920. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

[3] A random sample of North Carolina laws enacted between 1866-1967 were assessed by scholars William Sturkey and Kimber Thomas to be either "Jim Crow" or "Not Jim Crow". 

[4] Team member James Dick reviewed the laws for consistency between the scholars' assessments. 

2. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
Team member James Dick reviewed the laws for consistency between the scholars' assessments. 
 
3. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 
Lorin Bruckner, James Dick, Amanda Henley, Matt Jansen, William Sturkey, and Kimber Thomas. 
 
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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION  
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1. Number of variables:
Eight variables are provided.  

2. Variable List
id:            Standardized identifier for each law consisting of: year, law type, chapter_num and section_num
source:        Source of Jim Crow law assessment (Pauli Murray, Richard Paschal, or project experts - William Sturkey or Kimber Thomas)
jim_crow:      Indicator of Jim Crow (1) or not Jim Crow (0)
type:          Type of law
chapter_num:   Chapter number as integer, generated from OCR and data cleaning
section_num:   Section number as integer, generated from OCR and data cleaning
chapter_text:  The text of the title and any introduction before the first section of the law
section_text:  The text of the specificed section
 
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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Attribution non-commercial 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

2. Was data derived from another source? Yes
           If yes, list source(s): 

Murray, Pauli. 1951. States’ Laws on Race and Color: And Appendices Containing International Documents, Federal Laws and Regulations, Local Ordinances and Charts. Cincinnati: Woman’s Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions and Church Extension, Methodist Church.

Paschal, Richard. 2020. Jim Crow in North Carolina The Legislative Program from 1865 to 1920. Durham: Carolina Academic Press. 

3. Recommended citation for the data:
University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On the Books Training Set, from On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance. 2022. https://doi.org/10.17615/5c4g-sd44 (date accessed).


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