README.md

What

This is the accompanying code for the ProgrammingHistorian lesson on passim. This specific folder contains code and data for the Bible exercise.

• Python code to transform EEBO-TCP and Bible is in code
• Data is in data:
  • sgml contains the original EEBO TCP files in SGML
  • txt contains the textual content of the SGML files
• ref contains the King James Bible from Project Gutenberg
• The already-prepared input file for passim is in this directory: passim_in.json. Due to size restrictions on Github's side, it is limited to 200 books picked randomly. A full compressed version is available as passim_in.json.gz.

How-to

If you're only interested in trying out passim, simply use passim_in.json. If you want to play around with the code:

• python3 main.py will transform SGML files into TXT if needed, and then create a passim_in.json file with all the books.
• python3 main.py INTEGER (where INTEGER is an integer) will do as above, but will limit the number of books in the final json to whatever integer you specify.

References

Data from EEBO-TCP:

• EEBO-TCP. 2003-2019. Early English Books Online. eebo.chadwyck.com & https://www.textcreationpartnership.org/

Data from Gutenberg:

• http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10