Sunday 14 March 2010 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead
200 yrs of UK Parliament proceedings to go online

The UK Parliament has launched a pilot project to make 200 years of its proceedings available online by the end of the year, with the help optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

London: The UK Parliament has launched a pilot project to make 200 years of its proceedings online by the end of the year, with the help optical character recognition (OCR) technology.<!--more-->

The technology will be used to turn some three million printed pages of the Hansard record of parliamentary proceedings from 1804 to 2004 into digitised text, reports ePractice.

Some of the text is already online, although the project has not yet been officially approved as a version of Hansard.

The test site has been developed using information provided by the Hansard Digitisation Project, directed by the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

The main aim was to avoid expensive conservation work on printed versions of Hansard used by Parliament's members and staff, but also to allow better searching, and reduce storage costs.

This site has been sponsored by Parliament in order to test and demonstrate user interfaces for historic data, certain functionality and for other exploratory work.

The Parliament sees the site as a public experiment and its future development will depend to a great extent on the feedback received during the trial phase.
—iGovernment Bureau

[...] The British Government has taken digitisation to a few years back. As an experiment it has decided to make available online all its Parliamentary proceedings w.e.f. 1804 to 2004, reports igovernment.in quoting e-Practice..More [...]

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