---
license: agpl-3.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- en
- la
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

# 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)
```