Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Generation
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Languages:
English
Size:
10K - 100K
License:
| dataset_info: | |
| features: | |
| - name: TEXT | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: SOURCE | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: META | |
| dtype: string | |
| splits: | |
| - name: train | |
| num_bytes: 3127637884 | |
| num_examples: 7907 | |
| download_size: 1911478917 | |
| dataset_size: 3127637884 | |
| license: mit | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-generation | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| tags: | |
| - project gutenberg | |
| - e-book | |
| - gutenberg.org | |
| pretty_name: Project Gutenberg eBooks in English | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 10K<n<100K | |
| # Dataset Card for Project Gutenber - English Language eBooks | |
| A collection of non-english language eBooks (48285 rows, 80%+ of all english language books available on the site) from the Project Gutenberg site with metadata removed. | |
| Originally colected for https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant (follows the OpenAssistant training format) | |
| The METADATA column contains catalogue meta information on each book as a serialized JSON: | |
| | key | original column | | |
| |----|----| | |
| | language | - | | |
| | text_id | Text# unique book identifier on Prject Gutenberg as *int* | | |
| | title | Title of the book as *string* | | |
| | issued | Issued date as *string* | | |
| | authors | Authors as *string*, comma separated sometimes with dates | | |
| | subjects | Subjects as *string*, various formats | | |
| | locc | LoCC code as *string* | | |
| | bookshelves | Bookshelves as *string*, optional | | |
| ## Source data | |
| **How was the data generated?** | |
| - A crawler (see Open-Assistant repository) downloaded the raw HTML code for | |
| each eBook based on **Text#** id in the Gutenberg catalogue (if available) | |
| - The metadata and the body of text are not clearly separated so an additional | |
| parser attempts to split them, then remove transcriber's notes and e-book | |
| related information from the body of text (text clearly marked as copyrighted or | |
| malformed was skipped and not collected) | |
| - The body of cleaned TEXT as well as the catalogue METADATA is then saved as | |
| a parquet file, with all columns being strings | |
| **Copyright notice:** | |
| - Some of the books are copyrighted! The crawler ignored all books | |
| with an english copyright header by utilizing a regex expression, but make | |
| sure to check out the metadata for each book manually to ensure they are okay | |
| to use in your country! More information on copyright: | |
| https://www.gutenberg.org/help/copyright.html and | |
| https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/permission.html | |
| - Project Gutenberg has the following requests when using books without | |
| metadata: _Books obtianed from the Project Gutenberg site should have the | |
| following legal note next to them: "This eBook is for the use of anyone | |
| anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and | |
| with almost" no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or | |
| re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this | |
| eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United | |
| States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located | |
| before using this eBook."_ |