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README.md

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 - la
 size_categories:
 - 10K<n<100K
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+---
+
+# Latin Author Name to Digital Latin Library ID Concordance
+
+This dataset contains variant names of authors of works in Latin and their corresponding identifier in the [Digital Latin Library's Catalog](https://catalog.digitallatin.org/).
+
+The variant names were gathered from the [Virtual International Authority File](https://viaf.org/) records for the authors. In instances where an author's name has few or no known variant name forms, pseudo-variant names were generated by "misspelling" the name using the following script:
+
+```python
+from textblob import Word
+import random
+
+def generate_variations(name, num_variations=8, existing_variations=None):
+    if existing_variations is None:
+        existing_variations = set()
+        
+    while len(existing_variations) < num_variations:
+        variation = list(name)
+        print(f"Generating variations for {name}. Existing count: {len(existing_variations)}")
+        num_changes = random.randint(1, 2)  # Randomly choose the number of changes
+        for _ in range(num_changes):
+            idx = random.randint(0, len(variation) - 1)
+            if variation[idx].isalpha():
+                # Randomly change the letter
+                variation[idx] = chr(random.randint(97, 122))
+        
+        # Create a string from the list
+        variation_str = ''.join(variation)
+        
+        # Use TextBlob to correct the spelling slightly to create realistic variations
+        corrected = str(Word(variation_str).spellcheck()[0][0])
+        existing_variations.add(corrected)
+    
+    return list(existing_variations)
+```