Data Storage

The primary version of the files we are using is stored on Amazon Web Services: XXXXXXXX. As of now, administrative access into AWS is somewhat limited due to University of Iowa rules. However, AWS also hosts a web version accessible by URL. Each text file is available on its own URL using the naming convention

PDF and PNG files are also available on AWS but we are not primarily employing them at the moment. In later stages we will be able to refer back to them for OCR correction, for reading more complex texts, and/or to have a link to the original page in PDF form for the website.

We have backups of the full dataset including text files on Louise Seamster’s LSS research allocation at the University of Iowa; at the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio; and. XXXXX. An earlier rendered version of the dataset, split by bookmark into folders representing each PDF (but without text files and representing an earlier iteration of OCR), is also available on Google Drive. This version has Bates numbers appended that match up with the page number of each text file, as they both correspond to the order of their appearance in the larger PDF.