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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01fx719q532| Title: | Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Members, Books, Events |
| Contributors: | Kotin, Joshua Koeser, Rebecca Sutton Adair, Carl Alagappan, Serena Allen, Paige Bauer, Jean Browne, Oliver J. Budak, Nick Calver, Harriet Chow, Jin Yun Davis, Ian Doroudian, Gissoo Engel, Currie Gautreau, Violet Gjaja, Alex Green, Elspeth Hart, Isaac Hicks, Benjamin Joelson, Madeleine E. Kelly, Carolyn Krolewski, Sara Li, Xinyi Maag, Ellie Macksey, Elizabeth Mahoney, Cate Mancino, Francesca McCarthy, Jesse D. Naydan, Mary Root, Sally Ruehl, Isabel Thode, Sylvie Vandermel, Katherine VanSant, Camey Wulfman, Clifford E. |
| Keywords: | Beach, Sylvia—Archives Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France)—History—Sources Libraries—France—Paris—History—20th century—Sources Expatriate authors—France—Paris—Books and reading—History—20th century—Sources Paris (France)—Intellectual life—20th century—Sources Library patrons Library collections Library circulation and loans Library subscriptions |
| Issue Date: | 29-Jan-2021 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University |
| Abstract: | The Shakespeare and Company Project makes three datasets available to download in CSV and JSON formats. The datasets provide information about lending library members; the books that circulated in the lending library; and lending library events, including borrows, purchases, memberships, and renewals. The datasets may be used individually or in combination site URLs are consistent identifiers across all three. The DOIs for each dataset are as follows: Members (https://doi.org/10.34770/nsa4-3t76); Books (https://doi.org/10.34770/079z-h206); Events (https://doi.org/10.34770/rtbp-kv40). |
| Description: | All data is related to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962. For version 1.1 of the Shakespeare and Company datasets, we augmented and refined our data, and added two new fields to the events dataset. We added 859 addresses to the members dataset, seven books and 230 eBook links to the books dataset, and 1,290 events to the events dataset. We also reduced the number of members in the members dataset from 5726 to 5601 by merging records that belonged to the same member and removing mistaken records. In all three datasets, we corrected mistakes—for example, publication dates of books, VIAF links for members—and added missing dates. The two new fields in the events dataset provide the duration of borrowing events in days (when possible) and the source type or types of every subscription and borrowing event: lending library cards, logbooks, address books. To represent events that have multiple sources, we made three fields in the events dataset multivalued: source_citation, source_manifest, source_image. For more specific information, see change logs included with the individual datasets. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01fx719q532 https://doi.org/10.34770/39sq-bm51 |
| Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.34770/nsa4-3t76 https://doi.org/10.34770/079z-h206 https://doi.org/10.34770/rtbp-kv40 https://doi.org/10.34770/pe9w-x904 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Data Sets |
Files in This Item:
| File | Description | Size | Format | |
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| SCoData_combined_v1.1_2021-01_README.txt | Overview of the dataset, including list of fields for all files | 12.36 kB | Text | View/Download |
| SCoData_combined_v1.1_2021-01-datapackage.json | Frictionless data schema describing the CSV files | 19.3 kB | Frictionless Data datapackage | View/Download |
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