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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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    Books containing images about Finland
    (2019)
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    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)
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    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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    Russian language books in the Digitised 19th century books dataset
    (2019)
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    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 related to 19th Century British Colonies derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset
    (2020)
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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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    SherlockNet data
    (2017)
    Zhao, Luda
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    Do, Brian
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    Wang, Karen
    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 of 1 million book illustrations scanned from books published between 1500 and 1900. We proposed to use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to perform this automatic tagging and captioning. In addition, we proposed deeper analysis of temporal trends in these images using the explanatory power provided by neural networks.
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    Books related to War derived from the Digitised 19th Century Books Dataset
    (2020)
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    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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    Books related to the Industrial Revolution derived from the Digitised 19th Century books dataset
    (2020)
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    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 University College London for the module BASC003, Information through the ages in Autumn 2019.
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    Books related to India from the Digitised 19th Century Books dataset
    (2020)
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    British Library Labs
    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 'Mughal Empire'. It was manually cleaned resulting in a dataset of 599 rows. This dataset was curated by the HUJI group of students at University College London for the module BASC003, Information through the ages in Autumn 2019.
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    Latin American books in Digitised 19th century books
    (2019)
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    British Library Labs
    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.
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