| | --- |
| | tags: |
| | - openlibrary |
| | - bibliographic |
| | - books |
| | - parquet |
| |
|
| | license: cc0-1.0 |
| |
|
| | configs: |
| | - config_name: authors |
| | data_files: 'authors/*.parquet' |
| | description: All OpenLibrary author records. |
| |
|
| | - config_name: editions |
| | data_files: 'editions/*.parquet' |
| | description: All book-edition records (ISBN-level). |
| |
|
| | - config_name: works |
| | data_files: 'works/*.parquet' |
| | description: Abstract “work” records (title-level). |
| | --- |
| | |
| | # 📚 OpenLibrary Parquet Mirror |
| |
|
| | An up‑to‑date, stream‑ready mirror of the official **OpenLibrary** public data dumps, converted to snappy‑compressed Parquet. |
| |
|
| | > **Source:** [https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps](https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps) |
| |
|
| | ## 💾 Repository organization |
| |
|
| | ``` |
| | openlibrary/ |
| | ├── authors/ # authors_0.parquet, authors_1.parquet, … (≈ 1-2 GB each) |
| | ├── editions/ # editions_0.parquet, editions_1.parquet, … |
| | └── works/ # works_0.parquet, works_1.parquet, … |
| | ``` |
| |
|
| | ## 🏃 Quick start |
| |
|
| | ```python |
| | from datasets import load_dataset |
| | |
| | # stream authors only |
| | authors = load_dataset("sayshara/openlibrary", "authors", split="train", streaming=True) |
| | for i, rec in enumerate(authors): |
| | if i == 5: |
| | break |
| | print(rec["name"], rec.get("birth_date")) |
| | ``` |
| |
|
| | ## 📝 Schema notes |
| |
|
| | * Missing columns for a given record are stored as `NULL`. |
| | * Top‑level JSON objects from the dump are flattened; nested structures are preserved as JSON‑encoded strings. |
| | * The raw JSON produced by OpenLibrary loosely follows per‑entity schemata maintained in the [`openlibrary‑client` repo](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/tree/master/olclient/schemata): |
| |
|
| | * [`authors.schema.json`](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/blob/master/olclient/schemata/author.schema.json) |
| | → governs objects from **`ol_dump_authors_latest.txt.gz`**. |
| | * [`editions.schema.json`](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/blob/master/olclient/schemata/edition.schema.json) |
| | → governs objects from **`ol_dump_editions_latest.txt.gz`**. |
| | * [`works.schema.json`](https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/blob/master/olclient/schemata/work.schema.json) |
| | → governs objects from **`ol_dump_works_latest.txt.gz`**. |
| | |
| | | Field example | Type | Notes | |
| | | ----------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------ | |
| | | `key` | string | e.g. `/authors/OL23919A` | |
| | | `latest_revision` | double | revision id (via OL) | |
| | | `birth_date` | string | free‑text date | |
| | | `remote_ids` | string | JSON string of `{"wikidata": "Q42"}` | |
| |
|
| | --- |
| | ## 📜 License |
| |
|
| | OpenLibrary dedicates its catalog data to the **public domain** under the |
| | [CC0 1.0 Universal (Public‑Domain Dedication)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) license. |
| |
|
| | For more information, see: [https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/using](https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/using) |
| |
|
| | Because this Parquet mirror is a direct transformation of that catalog, **all |
| | files in this dataset are likewise released under CC0 1.0**. You may copy, |
| | modify, redistribute, and use them for any purpose without permission or |
| | attribution. (Attribution to OpenLibrary/Internet Archive is appreciated but |
| | not legally required.) |
| |
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| | --- |
| |
|
| | Maintainer • [@sayshara](https://huggingface.co/sayshara) |
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