---
language:
- da
- 'no'
license: cc-by-4.0
size_categories:
- n<1K
pretty_name: The Canon annotated MeMo corpus
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: filename
    dtype: string
  - name: full_firstnames
    dtype: string
  - name: auth_first
    dtype: string
  - name: auth_last_modern
    dtype: string
  - name: pseudonym
    dtype: string
  - name: publ_date
    dtype: int64
  - name: title_modern
    dtype: string
  - name: published_under_gender
    dtype: string
  - name: real_gender
    dtype: string
  - name: nationality
    dtype: string
  - name: auth_id
    dtype: int64
  - name: auth_last
    dtype: string
  - name: title
    dtype: string
  - name: surname
    dtype: string
  - name: title.1
    dtype: string
  - name: subtitle
    dtype: string
  - name: volume
    dtype: float64
  - name: year
    dtype: int64
  - name: pages
    dtype: float64
  - name: illustrations
    dtype: string
  - name: typeface
    dtype: string
  - name: publisher
    dtype: string
  - name: price
    dtype: float64
  - name: source
    dtype: string
  - name: notes
    dtype: string
  - name: filepath
    dtype: string
  - name: historical
    dtype: float64
  - name: period
    dtype: string
  - name: period_notes
    dtype: string
  - name: novel_start
    dtype: float64
  - name: novel_end
    dtype: float64
  - name: serialno
    dtype: float64
  - name: category
    dtype: string
  - name: e_canon
    dtype: int64
  - name: ce_canon
    dtype: int64
  - name: lex_canon
    dtype: int64
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 28843431
    num_examples: 839
  download_size: 17855963
  dataset_size: 28843431
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
source_dataset:
- MiMe-MeMo/Corpus-v1.1
tags:
- canon
- historical
---

## Dataset description

source_datasets:
- The corpus was created and made available by Jens Bjerring-Hansen and Philip Diderichsen, Dorte Haltrup Hansen, June 2023, see: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/MiMe-MeMo/Corpus-v1.1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/MiMe-MeMo/Corpus-v1.1)
**- Here, we make a more accessible, annotated version available.**

## Additional tags:
- CE Canon: Cultural/Educational Canon, referring to novels whose titles are included in the Cultural Canon, or whose author is included in the Educational Canon.
- LEX Canon: Lexicon Canon, referring to novels that were not included in the Educational Canon and Cultural Canon, but whose author is mentioned in the lists of novels and novellas in the lemma ['det moderne gennembruds litteratur' of Den Store Danske](https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/det_moderne_gennembruds_litteratur#:~:text=Det%20moderne%20gennembrud%20er%20en,religion%20og%20ulighed%20mellem%20kønnene.).
- E Canon: Extended Canon, referring to all novels that are included in CE Canon and/or LEX Canon.

## Additional processing
- Whitespace cleaning

## Citation

If you want to use this data, please cite our work as well as the original creators of the corpus:

```
@inproceedings{bjerring-hansen_mending_2022,
	address = {Uppsala, Sweden},
	title = {Mending {Fractured} {Texts}. {A} heuristic procedure for correcting {OCR} data: 6th {Digital} {Humanities} in the {Nordic} and {Baltic} {Countries} {Conference}, {DHNB} 2022},
	volume = {3232},
	shorttitle = {Mending {Fractured} {Texts}. {A} heuristic procedure for correcting {OCR} data},
	url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3232/paper14.pdf},
	urldate = {2024-08-19},
	booktitle = {{CEUR} {Workshop} {Proceedings}},
	author = {Bjerring-Hansen, Jens and Kristensen-McLachlan, Ross Deans and Diderichsen, Philip and Hansen, Dorte Haltrup},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {177--186},
}
```
```
@inproceedings{feldkamp_canonical_2024,
	address = {Miami, Florida, USA},
	title = {Canonical {Status} and {Literary} {Influence}: {A} {Comparative} {Study} of {Danish} {Novels} from the {Modern} {Breakthrough} (1870--1900)},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Joint} 4th {International} {Conference} on {Natural} {Language} {Processing} for {Digital} {Humanities}},
	publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics, Forthcoming},
	author = {Feldkamp, Pascale and Lassche, Alie and Kostkan, Jan and Kardos, Márton and Baunvig, Katrine F. and Nielbo, Kristoffer L.},
	year = {2024},
}
```