Access

Formats

The corpus can be downloaded in several file formats:

• vertical text format (CWB/CQPweb) .vrt
• plain text format .txt
• TEI format (Text Encoding Initiative) .tei.xml
• TCF format (WebLicht Text Corpus Format) .tcf.xml

.vrt is the default file format containing all available annotations.

The other file formats are provided as a convenience only and may be incomplete (they contain all tokens though).

The text metadata can be downloaded separately.

More information on the annotation of the corpus can be found on a separate page.

In the so-called vrt-format (vertical text format) annotations on the token level (positional attributes, e.g. word, pos, lemma) are represented in a one-word-per-line with TAB deliminated columns for each positional attribute. Annotations beyond token level (structural attributes, e.g. texts, sentences, pages) are represented as SGML-tags with possible attribute-value pairs. Metadata, e.g., are encoded as attributes of the <text>-element. Files in vrt-format can be imported into the Corpus Workbench or CQPweb.

Files

• Corpus as a whole
  • Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_corpus.vrt.zip (799 MB)
  • Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_corpus.tei.xml.zip (132 MB)
• Texts as separate files
  • Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_vrt.zip (812 MB)
  • Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_txt.zip (59 MB)
  • Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_tei.zip (140 MB)
  • Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_tcf.zip (724 MB)
• Text metadata
  • Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_meta.tsv.zip (1 MB)

Checksums (md5sum):

7bf9c582f2af6d581eacf8dde4aabc66  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_corpus.vrt.zip
6268a5239e9fcd156a8bf00d271fe3aa  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_corpus.tei.xml.zip

5a2b85ab8bdde684d82a0251a6d9fe62  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_vrt.zip
ad8881d6a5c96c6d11ed7ce4e623ec04  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_txt.zip
045579bc7cb2032641323a4845c317b7  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_tei.zip
15b62cd7e881b33554b68c27d02ecefa  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_texts_tcf.zip

8add09ff70ab18f210649d4911eeaa7b  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.1_meta.tsv.zip

Tools

You can also download our OCR correction scripts (2.7 MB).

$ md5sum tools-4.0.tar.gz
d4aa8252457d9366762382d8c4161625  tools-4.0.tar.gz

The topic model (6.3 MB) is also available.

$ md5sum topic-model_rsc_v2.0-24e-142.zip
cf91135ab1a5436087b522dafb3bc33b  topic-model_rsc_v2.0-24e-142.zip

Release History

• v4.0.1: more file formats (same data)

• v4.0.0: long-term release

• Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.0_final.zip (799 MB)

Checksums (md5sum):

5469d9cf30c1a4c74cf81ced861c95c6  Royal_Society_Corpus_v4.0.0_final.zip