The Dataset

The transcriptions are available as a single download for researchers.

What's in it

Transcriptions of roughly 22,400 notebook pages, one page per row:

• id — the page number, matching the permalink (/browse.html#id)
• image — the manuscript scan filename
• date — the date, where known
• volume — the notebook volume
• source — human (transcribed by Andrew Otis) or ai (AI-assisted)
• transcription — the page text

Download

Download the dataset (zip)

Contains a CSV, a JSON Lines file, and a README. See the README for field details and method.

How to cite

Hyde's Notebooks: 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.