Dataset

Digitised Books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JSONL (OCR derived text + metadata)

Public Deposited

Creator
  • British Library Labs
  • British Library  ( ISNI )
2021

Abstract
  • 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.

Items:

Thumbnail File Name Date Uploaded Visibility File Size Actions
1510_1699.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 40 MB
1700_1799.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 91 MB
1800_1809.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 170 MB
1810_1819.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 270 MB
1820_1829.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 370 MB
1830_1839.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 450 MB
1840_1849.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 850 MB
1850_1859.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 1.2 GB
1860_1869.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 1.2 GB
1870_1879.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 1.4 GB
1880_1889.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 1.8 GB
1890_1899.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 2 GB
unk.tar.gz 2021-12-13 Public 19 MB

Metadata

Resource Type
  • Dataset
Creator
  • British Library Labs
  • British Library  ( ISNI )
Contributor
  • van Strien, Daniel  ( Data Curator ORCID )
  • Bento, Filipe  ( Data Curator ORCID )
Date published
  • 2021
Institution
  • British Library
Organisational unit
  • Digital Scholarship
Publisher
  • British Library
Place of publication
  • London, UK
Official URL
Licence
  • CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain
DOI
  • 10.23636/r7w6-zy15
Related identifier
  • identifier: 10.23636/HWM2-2Y73 
  • type: DOI
  • relation: Is Derived From
Keyword
Additional Information
  • You can find further information about the organization of this dataset in README.md file.