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Journal article
Automated Language Identification of Bibliographic Resources
This article describes experiments in the use of machine learning techniques at the British Library to assign language codes to catalog records, in order to provide information about the language of content of the resources described. In the first phase of the project, language codes were assigned to 1.15 million...Morris, Victoria
machine learning, automatic metadata generation, legacy record enhancement, metadata, and language identification
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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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Dataset
OCR text derived from digitised books (unknown precise publication dates) in ALTO XML
This set consists 284 volumes. The dataset comprises text from the collection of digitised books created using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. The books cover a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The dataset is in Analysed Layout and Text Object (ALTO) Extensible Markup Language...British Library ; British Library Labs
XML, microsoft, books, digitised, metadata, nineteenth century, and ALTO
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Dataset
Digitised 19th Century Books - Metadata - 01/09/2013
The dataset holds metadata on the the books digitised within this collection, providing a quick means to connect a book identifier with some of the key bibliographic metadata about it. The metadata is held in JSON notation for ease of reuse.British Library ; British Library Labs
JSON, microsoft, books, metadata, and bibliographic
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Dataset
Digitised Quarterly Lists PDFs and Metadata
The files in this dataset are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The dataset comprises full-text searchable PDFs of 215 volumes as well as the associated metadata...Derrick, Tom
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Dataset
Digitised Quarterly Lists XML and Metadata
Two Centuries of Indian Print 1867-1947. The files in this dataset are derived from the British Library’s collection of bound volume Quarterly Lists: printed catalogue records of Indian books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. The dataset comprises text from the collection of digitised...Derrick, Tom
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Dataset
Linked Open British National Bibliography - Serials. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for serials published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, serials, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, and metadata
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Linked Open British National Bibliography - Books. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML.
This dataset includes metadata for books published or distributed in the UK since 1950.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, BNB, NT, linked open data, RDF/XML, N-Triples, books, and metadata
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Linked Open British National Bibliography - Forthcoming Books N-Triples and RDF/XML
This dataset includes metadata for forthcoming books to be published or distributed in the UK.Deliot, Corine
British National Bibliography, forthcoming, linked open data, BNB, N-Triples, RDF/XML, NT, CIP, and metadata
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Dataset
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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Books containing images about Finland
A dataset derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset comprising books with images about Finland, approximately 40 titles. This dataset was compiled by Ruby Dixon a student at Graveney School who completed work experience at British Library Labs in 2016.British Library ; British Library Labs
books, Finland, metadata, and bibliographic
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Dataset
Books divided by Genre from the Digitised 19th century books dataset
A dataset derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset which classifies the books by genre (Drama, Poetry, Prose, Music and unidentified). For Drama, Music and Prose several types were identified. For Drama: comedy, play, recitation and tragedy. For Prose: novel, parody, romance, satire, story, history subset of story and...British Library ; British Library Labs
Music, Genre, Prose, books, Poetry, metadata, bibliographic, and Drama
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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
Books related to the Industrial Revolution derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset
A dataset which is a subset of the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset comprising books related to the Industrial Revolution in Britain. The subset of 354 items was refined by using keywords associated with placenames and the topic of industrialism. This dataset was curated by the Aepyi student group at...British Library ; British Library Labs
books, industrialism, metadata, bibliographic, and Industrial Revolution
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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 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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Dataset
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
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Books related to theatre derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset
A dataset derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset which contains books pertaining to theatre written in English. The dataset of 841 items was created by filtering by keywords which are related to different genre of play including Drama, Act, Scene, Play, Comedy, Farce, Pantomime, Tragedy and Shakespeare and...British Library ; British Library Labs
act, genre, books, metadata, bibliographic, theatre, and play
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Dataset
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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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