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Suggestion: Reverse citation of speeches #237

Open gwire opened 10 years ago

gwire commented 10 years ago

Occasionally a speech will contain a citation reference for Hansard which TWFY will convert into a link

In 1988, Edward Heath—as a former Prime Minister, he probably knew what he was talking about—told the Commons in a debate that if some in the security services “saw someone reading the Daily Mirror, they would say, ‘Get after him, that is dangerous. We must find out where he bought it.’”—[Hansard, 15 January 1988; Vol. 125, c. 612.]

A suggestion of a future enhancement, that may be of potential aid to readers/researchers, might be a reverse citation in which links to the newer speech are show against the older speech being quoted.

dracos commented 10 years ago

The issue here is that the link is just to the relevant column in the older Hansard, as it's automated, not directly to the correct speech. So to be accurate it would have to have some sort of matching interface (see #11) where people could confirm which speech is being referred to and create the link back appropriately.

gwire commented 10 years ago

If you do build a tool for the back reference section of #11 - i.e. a reverse-cronological list of unmatched references - I would promise to do a big chunk of the manual matching work.

TomSteinberg commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the offer! We'll have another sprint meeting in two weeks and I promise we'll weigh this up then.