Dataset from Zenodo · Hobson, Timothy
LwMDB Simplified Exports
- License
- CC BY 4.0commercial use allowedLicense text
- This license allows commercial use. Usually you must credit the author; read the license for the exact terms.
- Formats
- SQL, ZIP, CSV
- Size
- 2.7 GB
- Updated
- Jul 31, 2026
Description
This data is a simplified set of metadata for digitised historical British newspaper collections held at the British Library, as shared with the Living with Machines project (2019-2023), based on the full data, schema, and data dictionary available at https://zenodo.org/records/14389180. The .sql files contain the queries of the full database used to create the .csv files. This data is a supplementary file for Westerling, K., Beelen, K., Hobson, T., McDonough, K., Pedrazzini, N., Wilson, D.C.S. and Ahnert, R. (2025) ‘LwMDB: Open Metadata for Digitised Historical Newspapers from British Library Collections’, <i>Journal of Open Humanities Data</i>, 11(1), p. 32.
Description from Zenodo, shortened.
Files (7)
- SQLlwmdb_titles.sql2.7 kB
- SQLlwmdb_issues.sql571 byte
- SQLlwmdb_items.sql494 byte
- ZIPlwmdb_issues.zip20 MB
- ZIPlwmdb_items.zip2.6 GB
- CSVlwmdb_titles.csv414 kB
- ZIPlwmdb_items_oa.zip112 MB
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