Hi everyone, I am hoping someone will be able to help me.
We are coming to the end of a volunteer task to create a patient index for our asylum records up to 1914. We have done this as a group of approx 12 volunteers working through patient reception orders taking down basic info such as name, date of admission and discharge, age on admission, union and occupation.
The volunteers have worked onto paper, then the paper copies have been input into a spreadsheet ready for sorting/filtering. Whilst I am confident the accuracy of their work is of a good standard, I realise that there are bound to be mistakes. So my question is, does anyone use a standard way of checking this kind of work? For example, does someone else check every 10th/50th/100th entry against the physical record? I am sure I have seen a similar index (but can't remember where!) where the creators have stated a sort of disclaimer to tell the reader that the work has been completed by volunteers and they expect (for example) 90% accuracy. I am just wondering how to come to that conclusion or is it just guesswork?
If anyone has dealt with anything like this before, I would be really interested in what works for you.
Many thanks
Sarah Winning
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