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# Dataset Card for EB7
_Encyclopædia Britannica_ (EB) is the most prestigious reference work in English.
This dataset contains the text of the entries from the 7th edition (EB7) as well automatically extracted geographical
coordinates.
The original text comes from the [Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project](https://tu-plogan.github.io/source/r_7th_edition.html)
### Data Instances
Each sample is a JSON dictionnary with `id`, the entry ID in the [Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project](https://tu-plogan.github.io/source/r_7th_edition.html)
nomenclature, `texte`, the text of the entry and `coords`, the coordinates if any, and a disclaimer, as for example:
```
{
"texte": "NARLAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Orissa, possessed by independent native chiefs. It is thirty miles east from the town of Bustar. Long. 83. 5. E. Lat. 19. 50. N. 0",
"id": "kp-eb0715-073501-8764",
"disclamer": "ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.
License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
and General Literature. 7th ed., 21 vols. Edinburgh: Adam and
Charles Black, 1830-1842. Image scans: Natl. Library of Scotland.
This entry: 7th edition, volume 15, page 735 [7:15:735]",
"coords": "19 50' N 83 5' E"}
}
```
The figure below shows the plot of all the coordinates we could extract.
### Code
The extraction and visualization code is available here: https://github.com/pnugues/EB7
### Citation Information
```
@misc{pnugues2025,
author = {Pierre Nugues},
title = {Extraction of geographical coordinates from the 7th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica},
year = 2025,
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/pnugues/EB7}
}
``` |