Data · dataset · 2018
Western Australia Character Books, 1850-57 (London convicts)
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Western Australian Character Books contain a record of each convict prisoner as they entered the convict establishment at Fremantle.
Description
The books were intended to keep a record of the personal details, physical descriptions, and conviction histories of each new arrival, along with information regarding their character prior to and during sentence. The dataset contains records of 358 convicts who were tried in London.
The information given includes the name and register number of each convict, the date they arrived in the colony and the prison from which they came, as well as a convict’s age, trade, marital status, and literacy levels. The books also record details of the crime for which a convict was transported, as well as any known previous convictions.
Links
Where it is published
- Repository landing page figshare.shef.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Western_Australia_Character_Books_1850-57_Lon… ↗
landing page · from DataCite
- DOI doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.5977402.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from DataCite
Documentation and papers
- creativecommons.org /licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode ↗
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International
license · from DataCite
Catalogue records · 2
- DataCite API api.datacite.org/dois/10.15131/shef.data.5977402.v1 ↗
metadata API · from DataCite
- DataCite Commons commons.datacite.org/doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.5977402.v1 ↗
catalogue entry · from DataCite
Topics
- Stated by source
- History and archaeology · Law
- Inferred from text
- Archaeology 72%
Related
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataCite | 10.15131/shef.data.5977402.v1 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| access_level | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/rightsList |
| byte_size | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4301 | enrichment · DataCite | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| concepts[field].fos:history-and-archaeology | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].fos:law | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/descriptions |
| license | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/rightsList |
| publication_date | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/dates |
| title | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 | /data/attributes/titles/0/title |
| updated_date | source · DataCite | connector:datacite@1.0.0 |