Text Repositories

The following resources provide text for text analysis projects.

• Internet Archive Books (includes plain-text [“full text”] access to books, issues of magazines, etc.)

• Early English Books Online (EEBO) (BC library resource)

• Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA)

• Oxford Text Archive (large number of texts available in variety of forms, including plain text; texts are accessed one at a time)

• Project Gutenberg

• HATHITrust (16 million volumes, mostly in English)

• Chronicling America (12.8 million pages of American newspapers)

• DocSouth Data (narratives & literature from the American South)

• Perseus Digital Library (large collection of classical texts, much of it encoded in TEI/XML)

• EEBO-TCP (ca. 50,000 early English books, many encoded in TEI/XML)

• Old Bailey Online (197,745 London criminal trials, 1674-1913)

• Canadian Hansard (debates & journals of the Canadian Senate & House of Commons)

• Australian Hansard (Parliamentary debates, 1901-1980)

• UK Hansard (UK Parliamentary debates)

• Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (see also repositories; 10,000 premodern Islamicate texts)

• Transkribus Corpus and READ (efforts to use computer vision to recognize handwriting)

• ToposText (557 classical texts linked with a gazetteer of the ancient world)

• BYU Corpora (widely used corpora of American English)

• Wright American Fiction (American adult fiction, 1774–1900)

• UCLA Broadcast NewsScape (170K hours of captioned news programs; see Red Hen Lab for information on access)

• Media History Digital Library (nearly 2 million pages of media-related books and articles, 1875-1995)

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library (classic Christian texts)

• NYT Annotated Corpus (1.8 million NYT articles + NYT-supplied metadata)

• Europeana Collections (many datasets from European libraries & archives, from papyri to photographs to newspapers)

• Foreign Records of the US (nearly complete run of Foreign Relations of the United States; see these tools to obtain full text)

• Internet Archive (a huge collection of websites, texts, audio, and other media, available for bulk download via wget)

• Twitter Datasets (a catalog of Twitter datasets that are publicly available on the web)

• BitCurator (an effort to develop tools to analyze features of digital texts)

• Movie Quotes Corpus (“220,579 conversational exchanges between 10,292 pairs of movie characters”)

• Europe PMC (repository of life sciences books, articles, and preprints)

• Trove Australia (565 million documents collected by the National Library of Australia, including a sizeable collection of newspapers)

• BNC-Baby (4 million-word sub corpus of the 100 million-word British National Corpus, with parts-of-speech tagging in XML)

TEI-Encoded

• Women Writers Online

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (BC library resource)

• Documenting the American South

• Resources from Laura Nelson’s “Analyzing Complex Digitized Data”

• Demonstration Corpora, by Alan Liu