Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset: Volume 5
Name
BMC_5.zip
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1.2 GB
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Resource type
Dataset
Date published
March 7, 2023
Abstract
This dataset includes the catalogue entries derived from volume 5 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was created as part of an AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship project to enable computational analysis with the catalogue descriptions and to encourage further reuse of the descriptions in online resources and in digital scholarship.
Creator (organisation)
British Library
Project(s)
Legacies of curatorial voice in the descriptions of incunabula collections at the British Library and their future reuse
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council | |
Research Libraries UK | |
Version
1
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
UK
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Rights statement
No Known Copyright
Related identifier
| Identifier | Type | Relation |
https://doi.org/10.23636/fy17-kb09 | DOI | ispartof |
Additional information
The dataset was created using automated layout analysis, text recognition and catalogue entry detection. Transkribus was used to train a structure model for the pages with catalogue entries and the code used for the entry detection was developed by Isaac Dunford and improved by Harry Lloyd. More information is available at https://github.com/britishlibrary/Incunabula-Catalogue-Entry-Detection . The dataset includes the raw and processed data outputs as described in the readme file. The text is released under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain and the images are released under CC-BY 4.0 license. Contact us at digitalresearch@bl.uk if you have questions, or to let us know how you used our data.
Collection
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