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dataset_info:
features:
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dtype: string
- name: feuilleton_id_series
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- name: subcategory
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- name: wordcount/part
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- name: wordcount/whole
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- name: date
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- name: author
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- name: original_language
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- name: cliffhanger
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- name: feuilleton_name
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- name: complete
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---
# Press&Plot: Curated Danish 19th-Century Stories & Serial Fiction (v1.0)
**Short description:**
A curated collection of 29 Danish newspaper stories (1816–1832), including single-part and multi-part fiction, manually inspected, cleaned, and categorized for research use. The dataset is a growing resource.
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# Dowloading the dataset
```py
# using python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("chcaa/press-and-plot", split="train")
# if you want it as a pandas DataFrame:
df = ds.to_pandas()
```
---
## Dataset Details
This dataset focuses on ephemeral fiction published in Danish newspapers, capturing forms often overlooked in traditional corpora. Each story is assigned a unique ID and a general category: short story (general fiction), biography, travelogue, & lovestory.
- **Curated by:** [GoldenMatrix](https://chc.au.dk/research/golden-matrix) at Center for Humanities Computing (CHC), Aarhus University
- **Processed by:** [ENO](https://hislab.quarto.pub), Aalborg University
- **Uploaded by:** [Pascale Feldkamp](https://huggingface.co/PascaleF)
- **Language(s):** Danish (dan), from the 18th&19th century
- **License:** Danish Newspapers fall under Public Domain (CC0)
-
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## Data Summary
| Component | Count | Notes |
|------------|-------|------------------------------------|
| Stories | 29 | Single-part and multi-part narratives |
| Articles | 50 | Installments grouped by feuilleton_id_series |
| Categories | 6 | Biography (bio), travellogue, short story & lovestory |
---
## Data structure
A sample in this dataset is structured as follows:
```py
{
'feuilleton_id': 'letter-to-france_a', # unique id per installment
'feuilleton_id_series': 'letter-to-france', # series/story id
'text': 'Udtog af et Brev fra Generalinde Bertrand...' # full text per installment
'label': 'fiction' # label assigned in task differentiating fiction from nonfiction in newspapers
'subcategory': 'short story' # one of 4 subcategories
'clean': '1' # whether or not manual cleaning has been performed
'wordcount/part': '1017', # wordcount for part
'wordcount/whole': '2157', # wordcount for full series
'date': '1816-02-02',
'author': 'A. v. Kotebue',
'original_language': 'NaN', # from where this text was translated, if known
'cliffhanger': '0' # whether part contains a cliffhanger
'feuilleton_name': 'Blik i Fremtiden: Brev fra Generalinde Bertrand' # original title
'complete': 'TRUE' # whether a part is missing
}
```
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## Methodology
- Selected from high-confidence predictions of a fiction classifier.
- Manually inspected and grouped across installments.
- Cleaned for spelling and formatting.
For more detail, see paper (forthcoming)
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## Version
v1.0
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## Citation
Forthcoming
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