WABI Subset: Police

This index was compiled by Miss Mollie Bentley from various records she has used relating to the police. These include: Almanac listings, Colonial Secretary's Office Records, Police Gazettes, various police department occurrence books and letter books, police journals, government gazettes, estimates, York police records etc.\r\n\r\nEntry is by name of policeman. Information given varies but is usually about appointments, promotions, retirements, transfers etc.\r\n\r\nThe Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed.\r\n\r\nThe dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card.\r\n\r\nThe transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including:\r\n\r\n* Some cards are missing\r\n* Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information\r\n* Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not\r\n* Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card\r\n* As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced.\r\nIt is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians.

本索引由莫莉·本特利女士（Miss Mollie Bentley）基于其经手的各类警务相关档案汇编而成，涵盖年鉴条目、殖民大臣办公室档案、警察公报、各警察局事件登记簿与信函登记簿、警务期刊、政府公报、预算概算表以及约克警察局档案等。

本索引以警员姓名为条目编排依据，所收录信息各有侧重，通常包含任职、晋升、退休、调任等相关内容。

西澳大利亚州传记索引（Western Australian Biographical Index，WABI）是西澳大利亚州立图书馆的高频使用馆藏资源。近期，巴蒂图书馆之友（Friends of Battye Library，FOBS）慷慨捐赠，使得西澳大利亚州立图书馆（State Library of Western Australia，SLWA）得以将原始手写索引卡片进行扫描，并开展后续转录工作。

本数据集包含若干CSV格式文件，其中存储了卡片编号、卡片文本以及指向原始手写卡片图像的URL链接等数据。

本次转录工作采用众包模式，我们意识到该数据集存在若干数据质量问题，具体包括：
* 部分卡片缺失
* 转录内容源自众包，可能存在拼写错误或信息遗漏
* 部分卡片带有划销标记，其中一部分已纳入馆藏，另一部分则未被收录
* 部分卡片背面载有相关信息（通常为所提及人物的子女情况），此类信息应收录于下一张连续卡片中
* 由于本索引于20世纪70年代从印刷文献中收集整理而成，因此存在内容不全且未附参考文献的问题。

尽管存在上述问题，本数据集仍极具价值，其中蕴藏着大量关于西澳大利亚州早期定居者的信息，对谱系学家与历史学家而言尤为珍贵。