Data sets tagged with "literature"

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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

These [public domain works] are provided for nonprofit purposes only; unique site content is copyright ©1992-2007 the editors and The University of Oregon. Corrections and comments to the publisher, Risa Stephanie Bear, M.S., M.A., rbear[at]uoregon.edu…. Early Modern texts published by Renascence Editions are not peer reviewed. While we have done our best to ensure ...

Output of a crawl of Amazon.com’s item similarity API from January 18, 2008 for ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers). ASCII text and XML. By Aaron Swartz.

Query or download the database for BookMooch, a book exchange community. ASCII text and XML formats. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

RESTful API for querying the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network’s database of “[”open knowledge":http://opendefinition.org/]" packages and projects.

RESTful XML-based API for querying the LibraryThing Common Knowledge database of interesting facts about books. Developer key required. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. See the announcement on LibraryThing for more information. See also the LibraryThing Books API.

A collection of network datasets drawn from studies of human social networks, dolphin social networks, works of literature, power grids, books, blogs and more. Compiled by Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan.

Query the Open Library database, the goal of which is to provide one web page for every book ever published.

40,000+ quotations downloadable in XML format and available under a Creative Commons license.

Downloadable dataset of 250,000 records on U.S. copyright renewal for books published between 1950 and 1995.

Here are the datasets backing the Google Books Ngram Viewer. These datasets were generated in July 2009; we will update these datasets as our book scanning continues, and the updated versions will have distinct and persistent version identifiers (20090715 for the current set). Each of the links below will directly download a fragment of the given corpus. For instance, ...

Find and compare Nobel Prize winners by subject, year, university, country, age, gender, religion and more.

Find and compare Pulitzer Prize winners by name, year, category, title of work and citation. Categories include fiction, non fiction, poetry, photography and more.