How accurate is the information included in the directories?
The digital editions of the directories have been scanned from original pages, been converted to text twice, with versions compared for discrepencies, and encoded at Tufts with students and staff reviewing the output of the variety of processes listed above. A significant amount of “hands and eyes”-on editing has also happened on individual entries. But mistakes, of course can and will still occur. We have taken some consolation in the findings that sometimes, while chasing down an error, we are able to trace back through the tagged documents, converted texts, scanned page images all the way to the original printed versions. It appears that even the original compilers were not perfect, except when the errors were incredibly obvious, we have not corrected questionable errors exiting in the digital documents that can be traced to the originals. As always, we encourage patrons to question “doubtful” content and notify us of mistakes. We will take every effort to resolve and correct any er
