The Dataset
The full transcription corpus is available as a single download for researchers and digital-humanities projects. It is the same text that powers the reader and search on this site.
What's in it
One record per manuscript page, roughly 22,400 in all:
- id — the page number, matching the permalink in the reader (
/browse.html#id) - image — the manuscript scan filename
- date — the sitting date, where known
- volume — the notebook volume
- source —
human(transcribed by Andrew Otis) orai(AI-assisted) - transcription — the page text
Download
Contains a CSV, a JSON Lines file, and a README. See the README for field details and method.
How to cite
Hyde Reports: Judicial Notebooks of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, Calcutta, 1774–1798. Transcribed by Andrew Otis; original project by Carol Siri Johnson and students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Digital edition and dataset preserved by Steps Ventures, 2026.
License
The transcriptions are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt them for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you credit the project using the citation above.