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Diachronic word embeddings from 19th-century newspapers digitised by the British Library (1800-1919)
Word vectors related to the paper "Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers" by Nilo Pedrazzini and Barbara McGillivray (2022). The embeddings were trained on a 4.2-billion-word corpus of 19th-century British newspapers using Word2Vec and specific parameters. The embeddings are divided into...Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
historical semantics, word-vectors, late-modern-english, newspapers, diachronic-embeddings, and word2vec
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The Blackpool Gazette & Herald
The Blackpool Gazette & Herald (1874 - 1919) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project. All but one of these datasets is currently unavailable due to a technical glitch when uploading larger files into the repository. Hopefully this will...British Library
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Halifax Local Opinion
The Halifax Local Opinion was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project. Th is dataset (BLNewspapers_HalifaxLocalOpinion0003063_1892.zip) is currently unavailable due to a technical glitch when uploading larger files into the repository. Hopefully this will be resolved and the dataset will...British Library
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Peripleo
Peripleo is a prototype application for the discovery and spatial visualisation of collection data, originally an initiative of the Pelagios Network and developed early in 2022 as part of the British Library's Locating a National Collection project (LaNC). LaNC was a Foundation project within the AHRC-funded Towards a National Collection...Simon, Rainer ; Gadd, Stephen ; Rees, Gethin ; Isaksen, Leif
location, geography, map, and cultural heritage
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British Library Newspaper Title-level List: A list of catalogued newspaper titles held by the British Library
A title-level list of catalogued newspapers held by the British Library.British Library
datasets, catalogues, media, newspapers, periodicals, and metadata
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British Library Television News Programme-Level List
This list provides a programme-level record of all television news and current affairs programmes recorded by the British Library’s Broadcast News service between March 2010 and May 2022. All of the channels featured were receivable free-to-air in the UK and licensed by Ofcom. All of the programmes listed can be...British Library
television, news, and current affairs
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Digitised Books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JSONL (OCR derived text + metadata)
The dataset comprises metadata and OCR generated text from 49,455 digitised books published between c. 1510 - c. 1900. The books cover a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The dataset is in JSON Lines (JSONL) text format.British Library Labs ; British Library
OCR and monographs
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19th Century Books - metadata with additional crowdsourced annotations
This dataset contains metadata for resources belonging to the British Library’s digitised printed books (18th-19th century) collection (bl.uk/collection-guides/digitised-printed-books). This metadata has been extracted from British Library catalogue records. The metadata held within our main catalogue is updated regularly. This metadata dataset should be considered a snapshot of this metadata. For...British Library
metadata, zooniverse, and monographs
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Digitised 19th Century Books - Metadata - 01/09/2021
This dataset contains metadata for resources belonging to the British Library’s digitised printed books (18th-19th century) collection (https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/digitised-printed-books). This metadata has been extracted from British Library catalogue records. The metadata held within our main catalogue is updated regularly. This metadata dataset should be considered a snapshot of this metadata. For...British Library ; British Library Labs
Microsoft, JSON, metadata, books, and bibliographic
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19th Century Books - Metadata 05/2021
This dataset contains metadata for a selection of monographs that are identified in the catalogue as being published during the 19th Century. This metadata has been extracted from British Library catalogue records. The metadata held within our main catalogue is updated regularly. This metadata dataset should be considered a snapshot...British Library
metadata and monographs
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Ordnance Survey Old / First series England and Wales 1:63360 (georeferenced sheet images)
Map sheet images for the Ordnance Survey Old Series / First Series England and Wales 1:63360, georeferenced and cropped at the neatlike (can be viewed together as a seamless composite). Geotiff format. The original (ungeoreferenced) sheet images can be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_Old/First_series_England_and_Wales_1:63360_(full_sheets). The sheets were georeferenced by relating the sheet...Vane, Olivia
England, First Series, Old Series, maps, Ordnance Survey, and Wales
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May's British and Irish Press Guide and Advertiser's Handbook & Dictionary etc. (1871-1880)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Frederick May and successors, containing information on newspapers, magazines and periodicals and arranged in alphabetical and sometimes tabular order. Information for each title included price, publisher, office, political and religious leaning.Frederick May & Son ; British Library
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The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1880)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitised historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated with mentions...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Beavan, David ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
nineteenth-century English, geographic information retrieval, newspapers, toponym resolution, and dataset
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Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
We present a new dataset (version 2) for the task of toponym resolution in digitised historical newspapers in English. It consists of 455 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Beavan, David ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
nineteenth-century English, dataset, newspapers, toponym resolution, and geographic information retrieval
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UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/ybpt-nh33 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, ethos, dissertations, thesis, research, PhD, doctoral, student, UK, and theses
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UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/j278-4b96 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, student, EThOS, research, doctoral, thesis, PhD, UK, dissertations, and theses
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EAP696 Catalogue Metadata
This Excel spreadsheet contains the metadata that describes the archival collection digitised in Bulgaria by the EAP696 "Minority press in Ottoman Turkish in Bulgaria" project team. The metadata was originally created by the EAP696 project team that digitised the archive in 2014. The project team was led by Mr Stoyan...EAP696 Project Team
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Catalogue records of photographs (1850-1950)
A set of catalogue records for photographs (created 1850-1950) that are held at the British Library. Export from the Integrated Archives and Manuscripts System of only CC0 published records. Personal or sensitive information has been removed. This dataset was created specifically for the Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice:...British Library ; Moretto, Nicolas
datasets, metadata, catalogues, and photographs
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Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure: Survey 2 Data
The survey ran from 4 October to 8 November 2021 and was open to everyone working in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums internationally but the survey had a clear UK focus. Some responses have been removed or recoded to protect the identity of respondents.Kotarski, Rachael ; Madden, Frances