![]() ![]() Secondly, those English newspapers are in the Old Style calendar, which the English stubbornly clung to till mid-century. No idea why I didn’t realize that the paper came out on the last of those dates, but it is what it is. Going forward, most of the following modifications won’t be necessary.įirst, going back several years I stupidly saved each newspaper issue by recording the first date for each issue. I have several problems I need to fix at this point, generally falling under the category of “cleaning” (as they say in the biz) the date metadata. Consider it a case study of problem-solving through algorithms. ![]() ![]() So buckle up as I describe the process of converting text strings into dates and then back, with AppleScript. And maybe you made a minor error, but one that is multiplied by the 20,000 times you made that one little error. I downloaded all those files the old-fashioned way (rather than scraping them), but just because you have all those PDFs in your DTPO database, that still doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily in the easiest format to use. I’ve been modifying my DTPO workflow a bit over the past week, which I’ll discuss in the future.īut right now, I’ll provide a little glimpse into my workflow for processing the metadata of the 20,000 newspaper issues (yes, literally 20,000 files) that I’ve downloaded from various online collections over the years: Google Books, but especially Gale’s 17C-18C Burney and Nicholls newspaper collections. If you’ve been skulking over the years, you know I have a sweet spot for Devonthink, a receptacle into which I throw all my files (text, image, PDF…) related to research and teaching. ![]()
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