How Much Statistical Data can be Recovered from Alabama Football History?

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We presented on the results of a pilot project that investigated the recoverability of historical statistical play-by-play data from the documentary football collection at the Paul W. Bryant Museum at the University of Alabama using Wikibase as our data repository. The recovery of data from the historical record for purposes of reconstructing the past in digital form is an active area of research across many areas, such as the recovery of climate data from historical ships’ logbooks. Our crowdsourced approach included volunteers who transcribed documentary materials in order to “mine” statistical play-by-play data from the 1992 and 1961 Alabama football season.

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MacCall, S., Liu, H., Anderson, M. (2019): How Much Statistical Data can be Recovered from Alabama Football History? University of Alabama Digital Humanities Conference Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2019