This readme.txt file was created on 2020-07 by Rebecca Sutton Koeser; reviewed by Joshua Kotin


GENERAL INFORMATION


1. Title of Dataset: Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Books


2. Author Information
        A. Principal Investigator Contact Information
                Name: Joshua Kotin
                Institution: Princeton University
                Email: jkotin@princeton.edu


        B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
                Name: Rebecca Sutton Koeser
                Institution: Princeton University
                Email: rkoeser@princeton.edu


        C. Alternate Contact Information
                Name: Center for Digital Humanities
                Institution: Princeton University
                Email: cdh-info@princeton.edu


3. Date of data transcription, processing, and refinement: 2015-04 through 2020-07


4. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: 


The Shakespeare and Company Project has received support from Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities; Humanities Council and the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Fund; University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences; the Dean’s Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities; the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English; and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.




SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION


1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: 


Dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY-4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: 
Current versions of this dataset available at https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/about/data/


4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: 
Information about lending library members, books, and events are available in separate datasets that can be used individually or together. All datasets use Shakespeare and Company Project URLs as consistent identifiers for books and members.

Members: https://doi.org/10.34770/ht30-g395 
Events: https://doi.org/10.34770/2r93-0t85 

Combined: https://doi.org/10.34770/pe9w-x904 


5. Was data derived from another source? Yes, datasets are exported from the Shakespeare and Company Project:


        Shakespeare and Company Project, version 1.2.0. Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University, 2019. https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu. Accessed 13 July 2020.


6. Recommended citation for this dataset: 


Kotin, Joshua, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Carl Adair, Serena Alagappan, Jean Bauer, Oliver J. Browne, Nick Budak, Harriet Calver, Jin Chow, Ian Davis, Gissoo Doroudian, Currie Engel, Elspeth Green, Benjamin Hicks, Madeleine E. Joelson, Carolyn Kelly, Sara Krolewski, Xinyi Li, Ellie Maag, Cate Mahoney, Jesse D. McCarthy, Mary Naydan, Isabel Ruehl, Sylvie Thode, Camey VanSant, and Clifford E. Wulfman. Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Books. Version 1.0. July 2020. Distributed by DataSpace, Princeton University. https://doi.org/10.34770/g467-3w07


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW


All data is related to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962.


1. File List: 


SCoData_books_v1_2020-07.csv : books that circulated 
SCoData_books_v1_2020-07.json : books that circulated (JSON)
SCoData_books_v1_2020-07_datapackage.json : frictionless data (https://frictionlessdata.io/) data package schema description for CSV file


2. Relationship between files, if important: 
CSV and JSON files with the same name have exactly the same content.
All files use member and book URIs from the Shakespeare and Company Project site https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu as identifiers for cross-referencing data.


3. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? 
Not yet, but we anticipate releasing new versions as more data is added or corrections are made.




DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: 
SCoData_books_v1_2020-07.csv, SCoData_books_v1_2020-07.json


1. Number of fields: 21


2. Number of rows: 6,011


3. Field List: 
uri : identifier; book detail page on https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu 
title : title of the book or other item
author : author or authors, last name first (could be multiple; separated by semicolon)
editor : editor(s)
contributor : contributor(s)
translator : translator(s)
illustrator : illustrator(s)
introduction : author of an introduction
preface : author of a preface
photographer : photographer
year : year published
format : type of item (Book, Periodical, Article)
uncertain : boolean indicating if item is ambiguous or unidentifiable
ebook_url : link to a digital edition of this work
volumes_issues : list of multivolume works or periodical issues known to have circulated (separated by semicolon)
notes : more information, e.g. about uncertain titles (text with markdown formatting)
event_count : total number of events associated with this title (integer)
borrow_count : total number of borrowing events associated with this title (integer)
purchase_count : total number of purchase events associated with this title (integer)
circulation_years :  list of years of known activity for this title (multiple, separated by semicolon)
updated : timestamp record was last modified in the Shakespeare and Company Project database before export


4. Missing data codes: 
Fields with no information are left blank.