Electoral Roll Data

Title	UK electoral roll data
Description	The BL receives around 400 electoral returns every year from local authorities in the UK. The submitted dataset has no uniformity in the submissions, with formats, structure, and data sizes all varying. Data formats include .xls .csv .asc .doc .pdf .txt. Address format varies, as does name format. 878 files (2.5GB) were deposited in 2011, and 612 (2.2GB) in 2012.
Licensing	Data is covered by data protection legislation and cannot leave BL servers.
Owner	British Library
Dataset Location	Onsite only
Collection expert	Maureen Pennock; content owner in BL is John Kaye (lead curator e-Social Sciences)
Issues brainstorm	Data must be migrated into a single machine readable and searchable dataset Variable field content must be normalised Process must be validated
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