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Fox Islands corpus audit, 2026

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TypeDataset
Date2026-08-01
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
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Dataset
Date
2026-08-01
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
heritagehistoriography
Within
Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

This audit records a reproducible 2026 count of Fox Islands mentions across the full text held here. After exact-body deduplication, it preserves 441 matches in 126 text bodies; the audit’s conservative local-context rule marks 405 as Michigan/Beaver-local. It is evidence that the Fox Islands recur across the held record, not a substitute for source-specific historical interpretation.

Method and limits

The audit recognizes North Fox, South Fox, and generic Fox Island(s) phrasing, then removes byte-identical body duplicates. Generic references without a Michigan/Beaver cue inside the automated context window remain unresolved; they are not automatically false positives or automatically local. Alternate OCR editions can also remain separate witnesses despite the exact-body rule.

The resulting counts do not measure population, ownership, settlement, transport volume, cultural affiliation, or the number of independent historical events. A claim about any one Fox Islands activity must cite and interpret the underlying source record.

Research use

The audit provides a queryable bridge from the archipelago and its North/South Fox places to held records in newspapers, books, Chronicling America, Beaver Beacon OCR, and the public Master Plan collection. It supports cross-county research while preserving the distinction between a cultural archipelago and source-specific county, parcel, or jurisdictional coverage.

See also

Sources

  1. Project Fox Islands corpus-audit summary, final run 2026-08-01.
    Records 489 raw indexed mentions in 130 documents; 441 mentions in 126 exact-body-deduplicated text bodies; and 405 conservative machine-local Michigan mentions. It defines the regex, exact-body deduplication, and conservative local-context rule. These are audit measurements, not a count of historical events, people, trips, or distinct witnesses. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    research · fox_islands · summary
  2. Project Fox Islands corpus-audit mention ledger, final run 2026-08-01.
    One row per indexed match with source path, phrase, local cues, body hash, duplicate-index metadata, and context. It is a discovery and provenance ledger; a row is not itself a curated historical claim. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    research · fox_islands · mentions
  3. Project, “Fox Islands scope and corpus evidence,” adopted scope note, 2026-08-01.
    Documents the nested archipelago model and interprets the automated count conservatively: at least 405 local mentions, with generic references requiring source-level review. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    docs · fox-islands

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Islands corpus audit, 2026”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/fox-islands-corpus-audit-2026/, accessed [date], citing Project Fox Islands corpus-audit summary, final run 2026-08-01. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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