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**German-Public Domain** or **German-PD** is a large collection aiming to aggregate all German monographies and periodicals in the public domain. As of March 2024, it is the biggest German open corpus.
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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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**German-Public Domain** or **German-PD** is a large collection aiming to aggregate all German monographies and periodicals in the public domain. As of March 2024, it is the biggest German open corpus.
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## Dataset summary
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The collection contains 260,638 individual texts making up 37,650,706,611 words recovered from multiple sources, including Internet Archive and various European national libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Each parquet file has the full text of 2,000 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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