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Simple searching of the table of contents and the full contents of the PDF for many issues of Morris Matters is available.

The service may be useful for a number of types of users.  For example members of the morris community who are looking for:

  • Sides they used to dance with (in my case “Black Cap“)
  • Information about a current sides such as “Windsor Morris“
    and “Abram Morris Dance“
  • Articles about topics which are relevant such as recruitment and standards
  • Specific dance-related topic such as Notation

Other groups who may find this searchable archive of interest include:

  • Local historians and researchers e.g. search for research and historians
  • Academic departments looking for projects for students

Limitations

The search service is still being developed.  We are aware of the following limitations:

  • Not all pages have been indexed – we are checking to see which pages are missing and will then submit the pages for indexing. Note it can take time for PDF files to be indexed.
  • Many of the PDFs for not have a title or description. 
  • Issues may not be scanned properly.  For example a search for “advic” finds the text “He offered the advic that the sound of the clogs shoul: be part of the dance ” – in this case looking at the PDF for RUMB 8(2) shows the reason the words ‘advice’ and ‘should’ were truncated (see page 6).
  • The PDF files do not have a meaningful URL – the URL is based on the date the file was uploaded.

However in order to check how well the detection of text from early magazines is try a search for “Women just aren’t built Morris dancing” – you should find the caption from a cartoon published in the first issue in 1978!

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