British Library Datasets

British Library Datasets

As part of our work to open our data to wider use, we make copies of some datasets available for research and creative purposes. We aim to describe collections in terms of their data format (images, full text, metadata, etc), licences, temporal and geographic scope, originating purpose (e.g. specific digitisation projects or exhibitions) and collection, and related subjects or themes.

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    OCR text derived from digitised books published 1850 - 1859 in ALTO XML
    (2014)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    This set consists 5818 volumes, published between 1850-1859. 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 (XML) format.
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    Books related to theatre derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset
    (2020)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    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 manual curation to identify works which were written to be performed. This dataset was curated by students at University College London for the module BASC003, Information through the ages in Autumn 2019.
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    Linked Open British National Bibliography - Serials. 1950- N-Triples and RDF/XML
    (2018)
    Deliot, Corine
    This dataset includes metadata for serials published or distributed in the UK since 1950.
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    OCR text derived from digitised books published 1820 - 1829 in ALTO XML
    (2014)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    This set consists 2739 volumes, published between 1820-1829. 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 (XML) format.
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    OCR text derived from digitised books published 1700 - 1799 in ALTO XML.
    (2014)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    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 (XML) format.
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    Russian language books in the Digitised 19th century books dataset
    (2019)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    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.
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    Books containing images about Finland
    (2019)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    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.
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    Books divided by Genre from the Digitised 19th century books dataset
    (2019)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    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 tale. For Music: hymn, melody, opera, pantomime and song. Each spreadsheet contains a sheet with the whole dataset including a type column and separate sheets with the different types.
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    Books related to 19th Century British Colonies derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset
    (2020)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    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 'Continent'. The exisiting metadta was also analysed to augment gaps within the existing data including 'Place of Publication'. This dataset was curated by students at University College London for the module BASC003, Information through the ages in Autumn 2019.
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    Books related to War derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books Dataset
    (2020)
    British Library
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    British Library Labs
    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 at University College London for the module BASC003, Information through the ages in Autumn 2019.
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