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Pelagios Project: Portolano. Egerton MS 2855
This dataset comprises 7 images from a Portolano produced in 1473 by Grazioso Benincasa. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Update – 9/3/2018: Please note that there were technical issues with this dataset. If you downloaded before 9/3/2018, please replace with this repaired...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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Pelagios Project: Digitised Liber insularum Arcipelagi Cotton MS Vespasian a.XIII.art.1
This dataset comprises 82 images from the Liber insularum Arcipegelagi, an illustrated account of the islands and major ports of the Mediterranean produced by Christophori Bondelmonti around 1422. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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Pelagios Project: Digitised Insularium Illustratum. Additional MS 15760
This dataset comprises 123 images from the Insularium Illustratum, an account of the islands of the Mediterranean, and of some others produced by Henricus Martellus Germanus in 1495. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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Pelagios Project: Maps after Ptolemy's Geographia. Burney MS 111
This dataset comprises 68 images from a Greek manuscript edition of Ptolemy's Geography containing many diagrams and coloured maps, and produced between the 1375 and 1425. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in copyright until...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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Dataset
SherlockNet data
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Explore Over 400 Years of Book Illustrations: Starting from February 2016, as part of the British Library Labs Competition, we embarked on a collaboration with the British Library Labs and the British Museum to tag and caption the entire British Library 1M Collection, a set...Zhao, Luda ; Do, Brian ; Wang, Karen
tagging, Flickr, images, tags, digitised, Microsoft, sherlocknet, and books
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Dataset
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 …
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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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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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C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 07 Jan 2015 – 10 Jan 2015
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured October 2014 – 6 February 2015; Keystroke files: 07/01/2015 – 10/01/2015.The dataset is comprised of screenshots and keystroke logs. The screenshots are saved individually as JPGs and BMPs as well as an AVI file, so the...Taylor, C M
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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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C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 07 Jan 2015 – 09 Feb 2015
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured October 2014 – 9 February 2015; Keystroke files: 07/01/2015 – 09/02/2015.The dataset is comprised of screenshots and keystroke logs. The screenshots are saved individually as JPGs and BMPs as well as an AVI file, so the...Taylor, C M
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Dataset
C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 07 Jan 2015 – 04 Feb 2015
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured October 2014 – 4 February 2015; Keystroke files: 07/01/2015 – 04/02/2015.The dataset is comprised of screenshots and keystroke logs. The screenshots are saved individually as JPGs and BMPs as well as an AVI file, so the...Taylor, C M
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Dataset
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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Dataset
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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Dataset
C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 17 Oct 2014 – 07 Nov 2014
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured October 2014; Keystroke files: 17/10/2014 – 07/11/2014. This data was created using keylogging software Spectre Pro (SpectreSoft) installed on a dedicated IBM Thinkpad laptop and then exported as TXT and RTF files. They can be used...Taylor, C M
TXT, literary, novel, RTF, and keylogging
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Dataset
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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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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C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 27 Mar 2017 – 05 Mar 2018
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured March 2017 – March 2018; Keystroke files: 27/03/2017 – 05/03/2018.The dataset is comprised of screenshots and keystroke logs. The screenshots are saved individually as JPGs and BMPs as well as an AVI file, so the individual...Taylor, C M
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C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 27 Oct 2016 – 05 Jan 2017
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured October 2016 – January 2017; Keystroke files: 27/10/2016 – 05/01/2017.The dataset is comprised of screenshots and keystroke logs. The screenshots are saved individually as JPGs and BMPs as well as an AVI file, so the individual...Taylor, C M
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UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/1137 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 UK's national thesis service. We...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
ethos, dissertations, thesis, research, PhD, doctoral, student, UK, theses, Higher education, and HE
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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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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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C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 17 April 2016 – 22 July 2016
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured April – May 2016; Keystroke files: 17/04/2016 – 22/07/2016.The dataset is comprised of screenshots and keystroke logs. The screenshots are saved individually as JPGs and BMPs as well as an AVI file, so the individual captures...Taylor, C M
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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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UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/1137 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 UK's national thesis service. We...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
Higher education, dissertations, HE, research, doctoral, student, UK, theses, ethos, and thesis
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Dataset
C M Taylor Keylogging Data: 07 Jan 2015 – 30 Jan 2015
This dataset is comprised of keylogging data from the author C M Taylor captured October 2014 – 30 January 2015; Keystroke files: 07/01/2015 – 30/01/2015.The dataset is comprised of screenshots and keystroke logs. The screenshots are saved individually as JPGs and BMPs as well as an AVI file, so the...Taylor, C M
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Italian Academies Project Database Images
Italian Academies 1525-1700 images. This dataset comprises 1084 image files in JPEG format. The images include emblems, portraits and title pages for academies, people and works. The XML metadata associated with these images contains references to their file names: https://doi.org/10.21250/iad1Gianfrancesco, Lorenza ; Testa, Simone ; Everson, Jane ; Reidy, Dennis ; Sampson, Lisa …
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Early German Bookbindings in the British Library
This dataset comprises approx. 650 records relating to mainly early printed books (and some manuscripts) in the British Library that have bookbindings from Germany or German influenced or speaking regions. Most were bound from 15c to 17c. Workshops have been identified using standard online and printed resources (see separate document...Marks, P. J. M.
finishing tools, tools, blind tooled, workshop, leather, blind tooled bookbinding, pigskin binding, Einbanddatenbank, German binding, Kyriss, calf, Schwenke/Schunke, and bookbinding
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Resources used in attribution of early German Bookbindings in the British Library
This list of resources relates to the Early German Bookbindings in the British Library set. See the documents linked in the 'Related URL' field for more information.Marks, P. J. M.
finishing tools, tools, blind tooled, workshop, bookbinding, blind tooled bookbinding, pigskin binding, Einbanddatenbank, German binding, Kyriss, calf, Schwenke/Schunke, and leather
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Dataset
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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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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Dataset
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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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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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
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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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 - 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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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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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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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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Dataset
Freemason manuscripts in the Modern Archive collections
Dataset of brief biographical entries for 365 prominent Freemasons, with links to relevant material held with the British Library’s Modern Archives and Manuscript Collections, from the 18th to the 20th century. The dataset was supported with funding from the American Friends of the British Library, and was created by Tabitha...British Library
Freemasons and archives
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Dataset
EThOS metadata files augmented with identifiers
A selection of files of the EThOS metadata augmented by the organisational identifiers listed below. These files were created to inform a deliverable which is part of the FREYA project which aims to gather enhanced provenance information in the EThOS metadata. The ReadMe file contains full details of the files,their...British Library
persistent identifiers, ISNI, ROR, and GRID
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Dataset
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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Dataset
al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī (Add MS 23494)
This dataset is a PDF file containing the images and transcription the manuscript titled al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في فنّ الموسيقي by Aḥmad ibn 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Mawṣilī أحمد بن عبد الرحمن الموصلي. The manuscript was digitised through the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership, and made available through...British Library ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
transcription, Arabic, and OCR
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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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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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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version (5): https://doi.org/10.23636/1344 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,...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, ethos, dissertations, HE, research, PhD, doctoral, student, UK, theses, and thesis
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Dataset
Government of India, Annual Administration Reports
Annual administration reports of the territories of British India for the following areas: Government of India 1870-1871; Government of Bengal, 1871-1936 ; Government of Burma, 1872-1899 ; Chin Hills, 1909-1923; Shan and Karenni States, 1889. For researchers seeking an overview of events and developments in the territories of British India...British Library
government, India Office, Bengal, Burma, Shan and Karenni States, administration reports, and Chin Hills
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Dataset
India Office Lists
The India Office Lists are annual reference works giving details of departments and post holders in: the India Office, London, 1858-1947; the Burma Office, 1935-47; the Government of India, Calcutta, later Delhi, 1858-1947; the main provincial administrations of Bengal, Bombay and Madras and minor administrations for the same dates. From...British Library
government, India Office, Bengal, Bombay, Colonial India, and Madras
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Dataset
Indexes to the Dispatches of the East India Company Court of Directors to Indian Governments
The IOR/E/4 Correspondence with India comprises 1112 volumes dating from 1703-1858. The material is arranged into eight series: four series of letters received by the Court of Directors from the administration in India; and four series of dispatches sent by the Court to the same administrations. Subject, name and place...India Office Library and Records ; British Library ; Hailey, Alex
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Living with Machines alpha and beta Zooniverse 'accident' task data
Data created through crowdsourcing tasks hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Members of the public were asked to look at a selection of articles from 19th century newspapers that mentioned machines and decide if they described an industrial accident. A further task asked participants to transcribe personal, organisational and place names...Zooniverse volunteers
crowdsourcing, digital history, citizen history, Living with Machines, newspapers, and digital humanities
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Living Machines atypical animacy dataset
Atypical animacy detection dataset, based on nineteenth-century sentences in English extracted from an open dataset of nineteenth-century books digitized by the British Library (available via https://doi.org/10.21250/db14, British Library Labs, 2014). This dataset contains 598 sentences containing mentions of machines. Each sentence has been annotated according to the animacy and humanness... -
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Text extracted from digitised maps of eastern Africa circa 1880-1940
This dataset comprises an Excel spreadsheet of text extracted from almost 2,000 digital images of maps and documents held in the War Office Archive, covering a large part of eastern Africa between c.1880 and 1940. The items were catalogued and digitised with generous funding from Indigo Trust. The harvested text...Dykes, Nick
War Office Archive, place names, text extraction, military maps, East Africa, computer vision, land use, colonial history, and ethnography
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Dataset
DUKweb (Diachronic UK web)
We present DUKweb, a set of large-scale resources useful for the diachronic analysis of contemporary English. The dataset is derived from JISC UK Web Domain Dataset (1996-2013), which collects resources from the Internet Archive that were hosted on domains ending in ‘.uk’. The dataset includes co-occurrences matrices for each year...Basile, Pierpaolo ; Tsakalidis, Adam
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Dataset
Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure: Survey Data
The survey ran from 28 May to 14 September 2020 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. It is intended to re-run the...Kotarski, Rachael ; Madden, Frances
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Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts – Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents competition - updated with improved XML coordinates
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
OCR, Indian, and transcription
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Dataset
The Sun
The Sun was a daily evening newspaper founded in 1792 with the support of then Prime Minister, William Pitt, and his Tory government. By the mid-1830s the politics of the newspaper had shifted, and it was advocating liberal and free trade principles. Ran 1792-1871, with dataset covering 1801-1871.British Library
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Dataset
The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser
The British Press (1803-1826) was a daily newspaper founded in January 1803 in opposition to The Morning Post, with a conservative orientation. It printed the latest news, from home and abroad, for a London readership, and provided early journalistic employment for Charles Dickens.British Library
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Dataset
The Liverpool Standard etc
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser (1832-1856, with two changes of title) was a Conservative newspaper established by local politicians to counter the rise of Radicalism and promote “Church and State” ideology.British Library
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Dataset
The Express
The Express (1846-1869) was an evening newspaper companion to the Daily News (1846-1912), published by Bradbury & Evans, and advocating reformist principles.British Library
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Dataset
The Northern Daily Times etc
The Liverpool-based Northern Daily Times (1853-1861, with two changes of title) was the first provincial daily newspaper in England to enjoy a sustained run. It was also one of the very first one penny dailies.British Library
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Dataset
The Press.
The Press (1853-1866) was a weekly conservative newspaper, to which Benjamin Disraeli regularly contributed.British Library
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Dataset
The Star
The Star (1788-1831, dataset 1801-1831) was the first daily London evening newspaper. Its circulation was facilitated by the success of the mail-coach service.British Library
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Dataset
National Register.
The National Register (1808-1823) was a Conservative Sunday newspaper, owned by John Browne Bell, which was hostile to parliamentary reform.British Library
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Colored News
Colored News (1855) was an illustrated general interest weekly newspaper. It was the first British newspaper to publish illustrations in colour.British Library
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Dataset
Faber Music and Music Sales Publications 2013 to 2018
The ‘Faber Music and Music Sales Publications 2013 to 2018’ dataset is an .xlsx (Excel Workbook) file containing metadata describing 57,202 digital and printed music publications published by Faber Music and Music Sales between 2013 and 2018 and deposited at the British Library under legal deposit legislation. The data was...Roper, Amelie ; British Library
music sales, legal deposit, digital music publications, and Faber Music
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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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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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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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Dataset
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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Dataset
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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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
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StopsGB: Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
Michael Quick's book _Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology_ offers a uniquely rich and detailed account of Britain's changing railway infrastructure. Its listing of over 12,000 stations allows us to reconstruct the coming of rail at both micro- and macro-scales. However, being published originally as a book (and... -
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Collective Wisdom crowdsourcing organiser and volunteer survey results
Results from two short surveys run for the Collective Wisdom project. Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Collective Wisdom project captures the collective wisdom of researchers and practitioners in crowdsourcing, citizen history, citizen science and public / community participation in research with cultural heritage collections....Ridge, Mia ; Ferriter, Meghan ; Blickhan, Samantha
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Locating a National Collection Our Place audience survey results
Results of an audience survey conducted by Locating a National Collection and funded by the AHRC. The research has been led by the National Trust in collaboration with the British Library and Research Bods, a market research company who have delivered results using the NT’s ‘Our Place’ online audience research...Vitale, Valeria ; Rees, Gethin ; Hunt, Alex
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Developing identifiers workshop analysis
A collection of use cases gathered for the Developing Identifiers for Heritage Collections resource (https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/PIDResources/). It describes all the use cases for which PIDs are used and was used to inform the aspects described in the resource.Madden, Frances
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Mapping Irish Football
The Mapping Irish Football project called on the crowd to share any newspaper references they may have come across of women and any code of football prior to and including 1973. It is hoped that this project will start a conversation amongst researchers interested in Irish sports to do more...Byrne, Helena ; Bolton, Steve ; Carrier, John ; Farrell, Gerald ; Faller, Helge …
women's football, newspaper data, crowdsourcing, and Irish football history
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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/kvwc-ty06. 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
thesis, student, UK, dissertations, PhD, theses, doctoral, EThOS, higher education, and research
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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/vtpx-we51. 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
thesis, student, UK, dissertations, PhD, research, doctoral, EThOS, higher education, and theses
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Glasgow Courier
Glasgow Courier was a thrice weekly/bi-weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Kenilworth Advertiser
Kenilworth Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Blandford Weekly News
Blandord Weekly News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Bridlington and Quay Gazette
Bridlington and Quay Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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British Miner and General Newsman
British Miner and General Newsman was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal
Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Birkenhead News
Birkenhead News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times
Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Weekly Journal
The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of Weekly Journal (Hartlepool) 1901. The full digitised newspaper comprises no. 1–407 (29 Nov.1901 – 17 Sep.1909). The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/weekly-journal-hartlepool The British Newspaper Archive...British Library