Historical Business Listings from Sands & McDougall directories
dataset:
SANDS_MCDOUGALL_PUBLIC
The Sands & McDougall dataset is for use on the Victoria Unearthed website and is available for download.
This dataset contains the business listings from selected years of the Sands & McDougall directories, a pre-cursor to the Yellow Pages.
The dataset was created by digitising the business directories that were published at approximately 10 year intervals between 1896 and 1974. The extracted information includes the business name, address and business type as listed in the Sands & McDougall directories. The extracted address information was subsequently geocoded to provide a point location that can be mapped using GIS software.
Additional information has been provided to allow the accuracy of the results to be evaluated with each record containing the data used at each stage of the data capture process; from the extraction from the directory to the final QA checks.
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Citation proposal Citation proposal
(2021) Historical Business Listings from Sands & McDougall directories Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning https://dev-metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/411d8214-d506-5e2f-bc0b-c93137cc46c8 |
- Description
- Temporal
- Spatial
- Maintenance
- Format
- Contacts
- Keywords
- Resource Constraints
- Lineage
- Metadata Constraints
- Quality
- Acquisition Info
- Raster Data Details
- Raster Type Details
- Point Cloud Data Details
- Contour Data Details
- Survey Details
Simple
Description
- Title
- Historical Business Listings from Sands & McDougall directories
- Alternate title
- SANDS_MCDOUGALL_PUBLIC
- Purpose
- The dataset is for display on the Victoria Unearthed website and is also provided for download.
- Supplemental Information
- Related Documents: None
- Status
- Completed
Temporal
Spatial
- Code
- 4283
Maintenance
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Format
Contacts
Point of contact
Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning
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Unearthed Victoria
(Data Custodian)
1/8 Nicholson Street
East Melbourne
Vic
3002
Australia
Cited responsible party
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Keywords
- Topic category
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- Structure
Resource Constraints
- Use limitation
- This view is available for use in the Victoria Unearthed instance of the MapShare sites. The information will be made available via data.gov.vic.au
- Classification
- Unclassified
Lineage
- Statement
- Dataset Source: Sands and McDougall business directories. All years, except 1896, are held as digital copies by the State Library of Victoria. Available years in this dataset: 1896, 1925, 1974. Dataset Originality: Primary
Metadata Constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Quality
Attribute Quality
- Comments
- The attribute accuracy can be highly variable. Some attributes (such as business name, address and business type) have been captured by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The original OCR values are uncorrected and may include unprintable characters and other errors. Other data fields contain values as the record has been progressively corrected.
Positional Accuracy
- Comments
- The positional accuracy of the records in this dataset is variable due to the nature of the source data. The dataset was created using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process to extract the address and geocoding techniques to provide the position. The positional accuracy is affected by the limitations inherent with these techniques. Some issues such as changing street names, are exacerbated by the age of the records. The Sands & McDougall directories were not consistent in the amount of information captured as the business "address". In many cases, the "address" may only list the town or suburb for the business; more commonly for rural businesses. Where-ever possible, all of the available information was used in the geocoding process. The precision of each record is limited to the suburb or town centre, section of road, or a property. A percentage of records were manually verified against secondary source material to confirm the positional accuracy. A modern (July 2018) property address, street or locality as defined by the VicMap Property, Transport or Admin datasets has been captured for all records.
Conceptual Consistency
Missing Data
- Comments
- The complete dataset covers the entire state of Victoria. Due to the nature of the source material, the coverage is better in Metropolitan areas. Rural coverage is limited to town centres and specific years of publication.
Excess Data
Acquisition Info
Raster Data Details
Point Cloud Data Details
Contour Data Details
Survey Details
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