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language: en
license: apache-2.0
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# Dataset card for Historical English Books
This dataset is a collection of historical English books from before `1919`. It aggregates books from the following datasets into a single dataset.
- [British Library Books](https://huggingface.co/datasets/TheBritishLibrary/blbooks)
- [Biodiversity Heritage Library](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common-pile/biodiversity_heritage_library_filtered)
- [Library of Congress "Selected Digitized Books"](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common-pile/library_of_congress_filtered)
- [Project Gutenberg PG19](https://huggingface.co/datasets/deepmind/pg19)
A blend of each of the datasets was selected using the following rules.
- Language = "English"
- Limit natural science to most popular publications (>1 edition) from Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Select only science subjects from Library of Congress collection given good general literature coverage from other sources
## Fields
The following fields are available.
| Field | Description |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| id | Book id |
| source | Source collection (blbooks, bhl, loc, pg19) |
| year | Publication year |
| title | Book title |
| abstract | LLM-generated abstract written in prose of 1800s |
| label | [Domain category](https://huggingface.co/NeuML/domain-labeler) applied to book |
| quality | OCR quality (0.0 - 1.0) |
| text | Full text of the book |
## Disclaimer
Note that these books represent cultural values at the time of publishing which are often not in line with our modern values.
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