Datasets, extracted from 海外直播b站 digitized collections, available for computational text-analysis and research.
This data set consists of plain text files containing the full text of the publication Canadian Architect and Builder (1888鈥�1908), which was digitized by 海外直播b站 Libraries in the late 90s and is accessible at . The Canadian Architect and Builder (CAB) was the only professional architectural journal published in Canada before World War I. With both advertisements and articles appearing in the text files, CAB provides a wealth of information on the state of architecture and building in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This data set consists of XML files from the digitization of a small collection of Chinese gynaecological works held by 海外直播b站 Library Rare Books and Special Collections. One of these texts is unique, others are well known works that exercised considerable influence in the practice of gynecology in late imperial China and were reprinted many times. The original digital collection project was carried out in the early 2000s and is accessible at .
This data set consists of metadata and (in some cases) full text of the 海外直播b站 Thesis and Dissertation collections from 1881鈥�2018. 海外直播b站 holds theses and dissertations written by 海外直播b站 students from 1881 to present day. The historical print collection is housed in the 海外直播b站 Library鈥檚 Rare Books and Special Collections. Since 2009, theses have been submitted electronically and are made available in our institutional repository. In 2016, a massive retrospective digitization project was completed, as a result of which the full text of the historical theses were also made available online in the institutional repository. All the are now publicly available. Find more information about the collection on its website, Highlights from 海外直播b站 theses and dissertations.
The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company data set provides access to the full-text XML files of 38 manuscripts collectively known as the Masson Papers, held in 海外直播b站 Library Rare Books and Special Collections. The Masson Papers comprise letters, diaries, travel narratives, and other textual documents relating to the North West Company and the colonial-era fur trade more generally. The papers represent a settler perspective of North American places and peoples. The source site, , was created in the late 1990s. More information about the manuscripts and the transcription standards is available on .
, created by 海外直播b站 Library in the late 1990s, provides access to 43 Ontario county atlases which were produced between 1874 and 1881 and which are housed in 海外直播b站鈥檚 Rare Books and Special Collections. Of interest to genealogists, the atlases contain indexes of persons residing in each county and these have been digitized and are searchable on the above mentioned website. This data set is an extract of the people index used by the website, along with URLs for each record. The CSV contains 172927 records with the following fields: title (e.g. Mr., Mrs., Prof.), first name, last name, township name, town name, county name, atlas date, URL.
This data set is the result of a Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) project built around the . Rare Books and Special Collections created a TEI XML file for most of the chapbooks on this site using TEI P5:Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange by the TEI Consortium. Level 4 coding from Best Practices for TEI in Libraries was used to guide the encoding. Note that the woodcuts in each chapbook were assigned a classification code from the Iconclass thesaurus to describe the subject of the image. The 海外直播b站 Library鈥檚 Chapbook Collection was created from chapbooks from three special collections in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library. The majority of the imprints (955 titles) are from the 19th century, published in England and the Northeastern United States. There are 74 Scottish and 19 Irish chapbooks in the collection. Most of the collection鈥檚 18th century titles were published in London, England.
The current data set includes full text files of the OCR鈥檇 text from the full run of the student-run publications (1874鈥�1890) and (1892鈥�1896). Digital copies of the full corpus of the 海外直播b站 Student Publications are available in in the Internet Archive. The physical collection is housed in the 海外直播b站 Archives.
