OCR text derived from digitised books published 1830 - 1839 in ALTO XML

Name: OCR text derived from digitised books published 1830 - 1839 in ALTO XML
Published: 2014
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

British Library; British Library Labs

doi:https://doi.org/10.21250/db6

Abstract

This set consists 2639 volumes, published between 1830-1839. 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.

Files

	File name	Date Uploaded	Visibility	File size
	1830_1839.zip	18 Dec 2018	Public	11 GB	Download this file

Metadata

Resource type
- Dataset
Contributors
- Edwards, Adrian (Curator)
Institution
- British Library
Publisher
- British Library
Place of publication
- London, UK
Official URL
- https://doi.org/10.21250/db6
Licence
- CC Public Domain Mark 1.0
DOI
- doi.org/10.21250/db6
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Additional information
- This dataset contains a set of zipfiles, each containing the set of ALTO XML files for a single volume of a book (or a single book, if it consists of a single volume). Example ALTO XML file to give an idea of the sort of XML you will encounter in this dataset. This dataset was zipped up using 7zip due to its large size, and we recommend you use the same to unzip it. Without using an application like 7zip, older versions of Windows may fail to open it, claiming that the zipfile is corrupt or damaged in some way. A volume's filename will give you a lot of information about itself - what the system identifier is (the first large number), what volume and the range of pages within. The final large number (before the "dat") while this can be safely disregarded, it is unique to that particular volume and may be of some use.