Digitised Books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JSON (OCR derived text)
Name
dig19cbooksjsontext.bz2
Description
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Size
10.59 GB
Format
Unknown
Checksum (CRC64NVME)
DNUNCqLwFD8=
Resource type
Dataset
Date published
2014
Abstract
The dataset comprises text created by OCR from the 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), 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 JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) text format. Links metadata, PDFs, Flickr images, digital versions
Creator (organisation)
British Library
British Library Labs
Contributor (person)
Edwards, Adrian
Fitzgerald, Neil
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
Official URL
Additional information
The 10.5 GB .bz2 file contains page level JSON formatted and OCR derived text. Each file is equivalent to a volume in the collection and the file is named to reflect the identifier and volume of the print work it is taken from. Each JSON file is simply a hash of the page number to the text found on that page.
Collection