Wrong indexed data
Dear Colleagues,
I've come across a collection of indexed data at the following address:
From image 1 to 46, the pages are correctly indexed… from 47 to 48… it's a mess! See for instance image 47 - not a single name matches the image given.
How do I report this to the team? The data pages are probably swapped (I did not examine the whole collection to check)…
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I'm not sure what you mean by "not a single name matches". Image 48 of 110 in the browse view, or image 50 of 113 in the edit view, pp. 90‒91 in the registry, contains four marriages as follows…
- Nº 27, Emilio di Gobbi and Maria Manizi indexed as "Ercilu da Gelbi" and "Maria Maniza"
- Nº 28, João Cardozo and Joanna Luiza Christofoli as "João Cardoso" and "Joanna Luiza Christofoli"
- Nº 29, Antonio Ramonda and Bradamanti Chelli (OR Thelli?) as "Antonio Ramona" and "Bradamante Chelli"
- Nº 30, Octavio Braga di Mezquita and Maria di Castro Camara as "Otávio Brada de Mequita" and "Maria de Casfro Camara"
Now, I have seen records indexed from the next or prior image, but this doesn't appear to be one of those cases. I've also seen where the A.I. indexing has incorrectly split multiple records on a page, but even that isn't the case here. Every one of the names of principals in the index roughly matches a corresponding name on the image.
In the edit view, you can edit the spelling of each name and tinker with the highlights to make them better cover the writing in the image. (You can also fix dates, add additional fields, etc.)
One thing to watch out for as you do so is that the index guidelines were generally "transcribe exactly as written", but the older extraction guidelines may have encouraged volunteers to standardize scribal abbreviations and archaic spellings, or volunteers may have done that ignoring the guidelines, and the A.I. inconsistently does that as well. (As an example from Spanish, "Juº" represents "Juan", but I've seen the A.I. index it as "Julio"!) I don't know enough Portuguese to know whether one of "Octavio" or "Otávio" is the "standard" form of the name, but perhaps someone searching for the person ought to try both forms.
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David, thank you so much for the clarification. You're right — I'll fix the names the AI/OCR tool extracted in the edit view ☺️
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