Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from "the crystal: a record of visions and conferences with the in-dwellers of the spirit world” by Frederick Hockley, Harry Houdini Collection, Rare Book and Special Collection Division By the People transcription campaign title: Seers, spiritualists, and the spirit work : the experiments of Frederick Hockley / Crystal : a record of visions and conferences with the in-dwellers of the spirit world : transcription dataset
About this Item
Title
- Transcription dataset from "the crystal: a record of visions and conferences with the in-dwellers of the spirit world” by Frederick Hockley, Harry Houdini Collection, Rare Book and Special Collection Division
Other Title
- By the People transcription campaign title: Seers, spiritualists, and the spirit work : the experiments of Frederick Hockley
- Crystal : a record of visions and conferences with the in-dwellers of the spirit world : transcription dataset
Summary
- This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 4,656 images from the "the crystal : a record of visions and conferences with the in-dwellers of the spirit world” created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign Seers, Spiritualists, and the Spirit World: The experiments of Frederick Hockley. It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
- The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Seers, Spiritualists, and the Spirit World: The experiments of Frederick Hockley (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/hockley/). The campaign consisted of all then-available online images of digitized content from "The crystal" transcribed in their entirety. These 11 notebooks (https://lccn.loc.gov/2010414646) are volumes 4-5 and 7-15 of The Crystal, 19th century occult revivalist Frederick Hockley's manuscript records of his crystal and mirror-gazing experiments. Acquired by the Library of Congress as part of Harry Houdini's Library, the volumes record information about the "spirit world" as told to Hockley by his seer, typically a young woman, whom he called the "Crowned Angel" (one such was Emma Louisa Leigh, ca. 1838-1858). The By the People campaign includes other additional context for the volumes.
- This dataset includes: 2020449268.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file -- hockley_2023-03-07.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Seers, Spiritualists, and the Spirit World: The experiments of Frederick Hockley campaign.
Names
- Hockley, Frederick, 1808-1885
- Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
- By the People (Program), compiler
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2023.
Headings
- - Hockley, Frederick,--1808-1885--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
- - Crystal gazing--History--Sources
- - Magic mirrors--History--Sources
- - Clairvoyance--History--Sources
- - Occultism--History--Sources
- - Spirit writings
Genre
- Data sets
Notes
- - "Dataset created 2023-03-07."--README file.
- - Title from README file.
Medium
- 1 online resource (dataset)
Call Number/Physical Location
- BF1335
Repository
- s-Online Electronic Resource
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2020449268
Rights Advisory
- The text in this dataset was created by volunteers and can be used in many different ways. It is subject to no known copyright restrictions and is free to use and re-use.
Online Format
- compressed data