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**English-Public Domain-Book** or **English-PD-Books** is a large collection aiming to aggregate a significant part of English monographies in the public domain. It has been designed to avoid duplication with existing collections such as English-PD-Books.
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## Dataset summary
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The collection contains
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## Curation method
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The composition of the dataset adheres to the criteria for public domain works in the EU and, consequently, all Berne-countries for EU authors: any publication whose author is dead for more than 70 years. Additionally, the initial consolidation of public domain status for cultural heritage operates in the EU under the 2019 Copyright Directive (art. 14).
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**English-Public Domain-Book** or **English-PD-Books** is a large collection aiming to aggregate a significant part of English monographies in the public domain. It has been designed to avoid duplication with existing collections such as English-PD-Books.
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## Dataset summary
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The collection contains 78,566,669,909 words (736,214 titles) recovered from multiple sources, especially Internet Archive. Each parquet file has the full text of 1,000 books selected at random.
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## Curation method
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The composition of the dataset adheres to the criteria for public domain works in the EU and, consequently, all Berne-countries for EU authors: any publication whose author is dead for more than 70 years. Additionally, the initial consolidation of public domain status for cultural heritage operates in the EU under the 2019 Copyright Directive (art. 14).
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