This repository contains supporting code for a paper which aims to shed light to the 19th century reprinting/republishing patterns of the Scottish enlightment works. The analysis is conducted in cooperation with the Helsinki Computational History Group
Data sources
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Download and extract NBS data into
./raw_data. -
Extract important data from NBS with QA catalogue:
# download QA catalogue library
wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/gwdg/metadataqa/metadata-qa-marc/0.6.0/metadata-qa-marc-0.6.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar .
JAR=metadata-qa-marc-0.6.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar
# extract the following fields:
# 008/7-10: normalized publication date
# 260c: Date of publication, distribution, etc.
# 264c: Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice
# 260a: Place of publication, distribution, etc.
# 264a: Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture
# 245c: Statement of responsibility, etc.
# 100a: Personal name (Main Entry)
# 700a: Personal name (Added Entry)
java -cp $JAR de.gwdg.metadataqa.marc.cli.Formatter \
--selector "008~7-10;260c;264c;260a;264a;245c;100a;700a" \
--defaultRecordType BOOKS \
--separator " ### " \
--outputDir raw_data \
--fileName nbs-data.csv \
--marcxml \
raw_data/NBS_v2_validated_marcxml.xml
It creates raw_data/nbs-data.csv with ' ### ' as column separator. If a data element is repeated, the individual values as separated by ' # '.
- Get ESTC data from the COMHIS team.
Rscript scripts/comhis.R
It generates a number of images in the img directory and dated_authors.csv file in data directory.