User Guide

    Search

    • For searching the corpus, please use the search box on top of the page (see example query)
    • Keep in mind that the corpus is extremely large (over 183 million words). Queries may easily be too general and result in thousands of hits
    • Be as specific as possible, e.g., by restricting your search to a specific year (théâtre 1871)
    • Simple search supports basic search operators. For phrase search, put your query between double quotation marks ("bien commun")
    • If you need search results from a specific period of time, or in chronological order, please use advanced search

    Interface

    • Each page on Plenum.be shows one page from the proceedings of the plenary sessions
    • The text is shown both as plain text (left column) and as PDF facsimile (right column)
    • Use the controls to read previous / next pages of the same session, or to zoom in on the facsimile
    • Links to the full session facsimile or plain text are also provided


    Contribute

    • The 1870-1940 corpus totals over 183 million words. As a result, the current quality of the texts is far from perfect. OCR technology today is very good but still error-prone, especially when dealing with print from the nineteenth or early twentieth century
    • We therefore ask all historians and researchers who use this resource to contribute by signaling errors and helping to improve the text quality
    • Please submit corrections by using the form in the left column
    • When entering corrections of common words (e.g., a double occurrence like "fois fois" that should be replaced by a single "fois") please provide a context of two or three words
    Plenum.be was initiated by the Political History research group of the University of Antwerp and the Platform for Digital Humanities. For more info, see Credits and project background