roettger/eighteenth_century_french_novels

General information

This dataset contains 12 Mio Token of Literary French prose 1751-1800 in plain text format, built within the project 'Mining and Modeling Text' (2019-2023) at Trier University. For the dataset in XML/TEI see the GitHub repository of the project.

Collection de romans français du dix-huitième siècle (1751-1800) / Collection of Eighteenth-Century French Novels (1751-1800)

This collection of Eighteenth-Century French Novels contains 200 digital French texts of novels created or first published between 1751 and 1800. The collection is created in the context of Mining and Modeling Text (2019-2023), a project which is located at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) at Trier University.

Metadata

There is a metadata file on the level of the full texts. The column names are explained in the next paragraph.

Data Fields

• —filename: file name
• —au-name: author name
• —au-birth: birth date of author
• —au-death: death date of author
• —title: title of literary work
• —au-gender: gender of author
• —firsted-yr: first year of publication
• —printSource-yr: year of publication of print source
• —form: narrative form
• —spelling: information in historical spelling
• —data-capture: information on data capture
• —token count: token count of text file
• —vols_count: count of volumes ('tome')
• —size: size according to Eltec scheme https://distantreading.github.io/Schema/eltec-1.html#TEI.size
• —bgrf: unique identifier in 'Bibliographie du genre romanesque français, 1751-1800 (Martin / Mylne / Frautschi 1977)'
• —author_wikidata: unique identifier of author on Wikidata
• —author_MiMoText-ID: unique identifier of author on MiMoText: https://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de
• —title_wikidata: unique identifier of title on Wikidata
• —title_MiMoText-ID: unique identifier of title on MiMoText: https://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de
• —lang: language of text file
• —publisher: information on publisher
• —distributor: information on distributor of file
• —distribution_date: information on distribuation date
• —copyright_status: information on copyrights status of text file
• —digitalSource_Title: title of digital text source
• —digitalSource_Ref: reference of digital source
• —digitalSource_Publisher: publisher of digital source
• —digitalSource_Date: date of digital source
• —printSource_title: title of print source
• —printSource_author: author according to print source
• —printSource_pubPlace: place of publication according to print source
• —printSource_publisher: publisher of print source
• —printSource_date: date of publication of print source
• —resp_datacapture: person responsible for data capture
• —resp_encoding: person responsible for encoding