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+# OmniBook
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+OmniBook is a large‑scale, high‑quality English text corpus designed for pre‑training and fine‑tuning language models of any size – from compact 135M parameter models to larger architectures. It collects thousands of complete books from **Project Gutenberg** and other public domain sources, covering the full spectrum of human knowledge, literature, and science.
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+- **Language:** English  
+- **Size:** ~25 GB (raw text)  
+- **Source:** Project Gutenberg + curated additions  
+- **License:** CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0  
+
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-license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
+
+## 📚 Dataset Composition
+
+OmniBook is built around **general culture** and includes:
+
+- **Complete works** 
+- **Historical scientific texts** 
+- **Philosophy and political thought** 
+- **Poetry, drama, and essays** 
+
+All texts are **unmodified** from their original Project Gutenberg sources except for:
+- Removal of boilerplate headers/footers
+- Deduplication of near‑identical editions
+
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-# OmniCult
 
-OmniCult is a high-quality, curated dataset designed for the **continued pre-training** and fine-tuning of compact language models (e.g., Quark 135M). It bridges the gap between classical humanistic thought and rigorous scientific logic.
+## 🧠 Key Features
 
-## 🎯 Core Topics
+### High Fidelity
+- **No OCR noise** – texts are manually proofread by Project Gutenberg volunteers.
+- **Original punctuation and emphasis** preserved (Victorian‑era italics, archaic spelling where intentional).
+
+---
 
-The dataset is architected around four primary intellectual pillars:
+## 📊 Example Record
 
-* **Higher Geometry & Spatial Logic:** Foundational texts on multi-dimensional space, tesseracts, and geometric abstraction.
-* **Classical Literature & Philology:** The complete works of foundational English playwrights and poets, preserving archaic syntax and complex narrative structures.
-* **Scientific Method & Natural Philosophy:** Historical treatises on physics, electromagnetism, and the evolution of scientific inquiry.
-* **Lexical Precision:** Structured dictionary data focused on scientific and technical terminology from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
+```json
+{
+  "text": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife..."
+}
+```
 
-## 🧠 Neural-Ready Features
+**🤝 How to Use This Dataset**
 
-* **Semantic Tagging:** Integrated `[CONCEPT: ...]` metadata to reinforce cross-domain reasoning (Logical, Detective, and Scientific reasoning).
-* **High Fidelity:** Total removal of OCR noise and modern editorial bloat. Original Victorian punctuation and emphasis are preserved to maintain stylistic depth.
-* **Optimized Chunking:** Text segments are precisely balanced (~2,000 tokens) to fit modern transformer context windows.
+```python
 
-## 🚀 Future Scope
+from datasets import load_dataset
 
-OmniCult is a living project. Regular updates will expand the archive with further explorations into classical philosophy, early quantum theory, and expanded linguistic corpora.
+dataset = load_dataset("OvercastLab/OmniBook", split="train")
 
-## ⚖️ License
+```
+Or stream directly (recommended for large‑scale training):
+```python
+dataset = load_dataset("OvercastLab/OmniBook", streaming=True)
+for example in dataset:
+    text = example["text"]
+    # your training loop
+```
 
-Licensed under **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)**. 
+**📈 Future Plans**
+- Add classical Greek and Latin works (in translation)
+- Expand with early 20th‑century scientific journals (public domain)
 
-*Intended for research and educational use only.*
+OmniBook is maintained by OvercastLab. For questions or contributions, please open an issue on the Hugging Face repository.