README.md

metadata

dataset_info:
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      dtype: string
    - name: feuilleton_id_series
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    - name: text
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    - name: label
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    - name: subcategory
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    - name: clean
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    - name: wordcount/part
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    - name: wordcount/whole
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    - name: date
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    - name: author
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    - name: original_language
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    - name: cliffhanger
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    - name: feuilleton_name
      dtype: string
    - name: complete
      dtype: string
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    - name: train
      num_bytes: 585442
      num_examples: 50
  download_size: 367205
  dataset_size: 585442
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*

Press&Plot: Curated Danish 19th-Century Stories & Serial Fiction (v1.0)

Short description:
A curated collection of 29 Danish newspaper stories (1816–1832), including single-part and multi-part fiction, manually inspected, cleaned, and categorized for research use. The dataset is a growing resource.

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Dowloading the dataset

# using python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("chcaa/press-and-plot", split="train")

# if you want it as a pandas DataFrame:
df = ds.to_pandas()

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Dataset Details

This dataset focuses on ephemeral fiction published in Danish newspapers, capturing forms often overlooked in traditional corpora. Each story is assigned a unique ID and a general category: short story (general fiction), biography, travelogue, & lovestory.

• Curated by: GoldenMatrix at Center for Humanities Computing (CHC), Aarhus University
• Processed by: ENO, Aalborg University
• Uploaded by: Pascale Feldkamp
• Language(s): Danish (dan), from the 18th&19th century
• License: Danish Newspapers fall under Public Domain (CC0)

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Data Summary

Component	Count	Notes
Stories	29	Single-part and multi-part narratives
Articles	50	Installments grouped by feuilleton_id_series
Categories	6	Biography (bio), travellogue, short story & lovestory

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Data structure

A sample in this dataset is structured as follows:

{
  'feuilleton_id': 'letter-to-france_a', # unique id per installment
  'feuilleton_id_series': 'letter-to-france', # series/story id
  'text': 'Udtog af et Brev fra Generalinde Bertrand...' # full text per installment
  'label': 'fiction' # label assigned in task differentiating fiction from nonfiction in newspapers
  'subcategory': 'short story' # one of 4 subcategories
  'clean': '1' # whether or not manual cleaning has been performed
  'wordcount/part': '1017', # wordcount for part
  'wordcount/whole': '2157', # wordcount for full series
  'date': '1816-02-02',
  'author': 'A. v. Kotebue',
  'original_language': 'NaN', # from where this text was translated, if known
  'cliffhanger': '0' # whether part contains a cliffhanger
  'feuilleton_name': 'Blik i Fremtiden: Brev fra Generalinde Bertrand' # original title
  'complete': 'TRUE' # whether a part is missing
}

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Methodology

• Selected from high-confidence predictions of a fiction classifier.
• Manually inspected and grouped across installments.
• Cleaned for spelling and formatting.
  For more detail, see paper (forthcoming)

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Version

v1.0

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Citation

Forthcoming