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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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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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UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/1188 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset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
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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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Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Arabic handwritten texts
This dataset comprises 120 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of historical Arabic scientific manuscripts (10th-19th century) digitised through the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership. Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition (OCR) or handwritten text...British Library ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
Arabic, transcription, and OCR
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Linked Appeals Data
The dataset in this collection contains Linked Data about appeal cases heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council between 1860 and 1998. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the final court of appeal for British overseas territories and Crown dependencies, as well as ecclesiastical and...Middle, Sarah
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John Jaffray dataset; a hand list of printed books and scrap books compiled by Jaffray relating to bookbinding and trade unionism in (mainly) 19th century Victorian London
This set comprises 169 records on 222 pages of a PDF listing the contents of the Jaffray Collection (shelf mark Jaff 1 to Jaff 169) composed using free text. John Jaffray (1811-1869) was a bookbinder in Victorian London, interested in bookbinding, trade unionism and Chartism. This is a restricted collection...Marks, P. J. M.
John Jaffray bookbinder, 19th century, trade unionism, and bookbinding
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Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts - Transkribus
This dataset comprises 74 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of early printed Bengali books (1713-1914) digitised through the Two Centuries of Indian Print project (https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print). Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition software on historical...British Library ; Derrick, Tom
OCR, transcription, and Indian
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Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts - Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents competition
This dataset comprises 81 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of early printed Bengali books (1713-1914) digitised through the Two Centuries of Indian Print project (https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print). Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition software on historical...British Library ; Derrick, Tom
Indian, transcription, and OCR
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Software Citation workshop panel session voting data
This data was captured from an interactive panel discussion session at the Software Citation workshop at the British Library on Monday 13 June. The audience were asked to vote on a series of questions via Mentimeter, with the panel (and audience members) then discussing the results. Mentimeter allows export of...Chue Hong, Neil ; Johnson, Jon ; Whitaker, Kirstie ; Madden, Frances
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Software
epidoc-headers
Python script to create TEI epidoc headers created as part of Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire using GIS project.Rees, Gethin
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Software
LD bounding_box
Python script to open a file system of vector and raster GIS data, find the extent and output this into a spreadsheet in a format suitable for Marc cataloguing.Rees, Gethin
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Results From A 2015 Survey On Git/Distributed Version Control At Imperial College London
These are the - anonymised - results from a survey run at Imperial College London in November-December 2015. The survey was aimed at user of distributed version control systems, in particular Git. Before publishing the results I deleted all comments to avoid individuals being identified. The survey was designed to...Reimer, Torsten ; Boakye, Gifty
higher education, survey, Git, distributed version control, and software development
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Early Music Online
Access is provided via the Official URL. These digitised volumes contain approximately 10,000 musical compositions, which have been individually indexed. The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. They include music printed in Italy, Germany, France...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra
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Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1000 - 1903), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 74 to Stowe Ch 297). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173
This dataset comprises 32 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1200 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 1389 to Sloane MS 3173). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Or 2518 to Or 5834
This dataset comprises 33 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (900 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Or 2518 to Or 5834). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image and...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: Add MS 27169 to Or 12983
This dataset comprises 21 digitised Hebrew manuscripts (1100 - 1899), with their shelfmarks in alphabetical order (Add MS 27169 to Or 12983). These manuscripts are out of copyright. These JPEG files were converted from TIFF files using IrfanView, and then further compressed using JPEGMini. They can be used for image...King, Ellie
manuscripts, Jewish, and Hebrew
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Digitised maps of the former British East Africa
This dataset comprises 581 images of maps of the former British East Africa created between 1890 and 1940 and a spreadsheet of related catalogue records. All Open Government Licence v1.0 (OGL). A user-friendly geographical search index of the maps is available on Google Maps. These JPEG files were converted from...Dykes, Nick
War Office Archive, documents, Intelligence, Uganda, East Africa, British East Africa, Maps, Military maps, and Kenya
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Italian Academies Project Database XML Records
Italian Academies 1525-1700 metadata.This dataset comprises 8598 XML records representing 587 Academies, 7100 people and 911 works. Some of the XML files in this dataset contain links to images, which are available in the Italian Academies Project Database Images dataset: https://doi.org/10.21250/iad2 XML nodes with the 'ImageId' attribute contain the filename...Gianfrancesco, Lorenza ; Testa, Simone ; Everson, Jane ; Reidy, Dennis ; Sampson, Lisa …