Random dataset of HTR-ed police ordinances Bern - to test Annif

This dataset consists of 4450 (out of the original 4932) police ordinances that were identified by Claudia Schott-Volm, Repertorium der Policeyordnungen der Frühen Neuzeit (#7). Orte der Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft: Bern und Zürich (Frankfurt am Main, 2006) for the Swiss City-State of Bern (1528-1798). 

They have been randomly placed in a test (500), training (3550) and validation set (500) to test the tool Annif. The HTR-recognition was done in 2020 with the - now terminated HTR+-model 'German-Kurrent_XVI-XVIII++French' in the then commonly used Expert Version of Transkribus (READ-COOP SCE).