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Russian language books in the Digitised 19th century books dataset
A dataset which is a subset of the Digitised 19th Century books dataset comprising Russian Language books. The spreadsheet contains metadata of 585 books in Russian. This dataset was compiled by Nadya Miryanova a student at Lady Eleanor Holles who completed work experience at British Library Labs in 2017.British Library ; British Library Labs
books, metadata, bibliographic, and Russia
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Latin American books in Digitised 19th century books
A dataset which is derived from the 19th Century Books dataset comprising c.1,100 books which are related to Latin America, written in Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Swedish and Dutch.British Library ; British Library Labs
books, Latin America, metadata, and bibliographic
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Dataset
British and Irish Newspapers
A title-level list of British, Irish, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies newspapers held by the British Library.British Library
datasets, catalogues, media, newspapers, periodicals, and metadata
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Interactive resource
Project FREYA: How persistent identifiers can connect research together
This webinar will showcase the latest developments from the EC-funded FREYA project, including the PID Graph which provides a method to discover the relationships between different researchers and their organisations and find out the full impact of research outputs. It will also describe upcoming developments planned in the final year...Madden, Frances
persistent identifiers, DOIs, FREYA, metadata, research services, and PID graph
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Blog post
When is a persistent identifier not persistent? Or an identifier?
Ever wondered what that bar code on the back of every book is? It’s an ISBN: an International Standard Book Number. Every modern book published has an ISBN, which uniquely identifies that book, and anyone publishing a book can get an ISBN for it whether an individual or a huge...Cope, Jez
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Sir Hans Sloane's Catalogues of his Library and Manuscripts
The files in this dataset are derived from microfilm copies of the original library catalogue of Sir Hans Sloane, now presented across 9 volumes, Sloane MS 3972 C 1-8, and the name index to the Sloane library catalogue, Sloane MS 3972 D. The catalogues are crucial for understanding the development...British Library
library, catalogues, Sloane, and metadata
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Journal article
MARC transformed: MARC and XML – the perfect partnership?
I first met a very British version of MARC (Machine Readable Cataloguing) in 1983, straight out of university. I didn't know anything about cataloguing, indexing, classification, or data. MARC made sense of it all. AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition) was impenetrable without MARC as a framework. LCSH (Library of...Rosie, Heather
MarcEdit, LCSH, EThOS, Dublin Core, TDM, XML, MARC Report, metadata, MARC 21, MARC, OAI-PMH, and AACR2
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Books related to 19th Century British Colonies derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset
A dataset derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset which contains books related to 19th Century British Colonies. The dataset of 1288 items was created using filtering by keywords of locations and then manually checked for accuracy. The data was augmented with additional columns including 'City', 'Colony Name' and...British Library ; British Library Labs
Africa, colonialism, Canada, Ceylon, metadata, bibliographic, India, Australia, books, British Colony, and British Colonies
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Books related to War derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books Dataset
A dataset which is derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset comprising all non-fiction English language books related to armed conflicts. The dataset of 1127 items was developed by refining based on keywords such as 'war', 'battle', 'uprising', 'revolt', 'rebellion', 'invasion' and 'mutiny'. This dataset was curated by students...British Library ; British Library Labs
non-fiction, War, books, metadata, and bibliographic
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Books related to India from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset
A dataset which is derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset focusing on books related to India. The dataset was created by refining the book title field using keywords related to names used for India during the period, places within India, cultural terms such as 'Hindu' and another term...British Library ; British Library Labs
books, metadata, bibliographic, and India