pre_1929_books

# Pre-1929 Books

## Description
Books published in the US before 1929 passed into the public domain on January 1, 2024.
We used the bibliographic catalog [Hathifiles](https://www.hathitrust.org/member-libraries/resources-for-librarians/data-resources/hathifiles/) produced by HathiTrust to identify digitized books which were published in the US before 1929.
The collection contains over 130,000 books digitized and processed by the Internet Archive on behalf of HathiTrust member libraries.
The OCR plain text files were downloaded directly from the Internet Archive website.

## Dataset Statistics
| Documents | UTF-8 GB |
|-----------|----------|
| 137,127 | 73.8 |

## License Issues
While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see [our paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.05209)). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please [start a discussion](https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/discussions/new) on this repository.

## Other Versions
This is the "raw" version of Pre-1929 Books dataset.
If you are looking for the filtered version used to train [Comma v0.1](https://huggingface.co/common-pile/comma-v0.1), you can find it [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common-pile/pre_1929_books_filtered).

## Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:
```bibtex
@article{kandpal2025common,
title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben and Elie Bakouch and John David and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2025}
}
```

# 1929年前出版书籍

## 数据集描述
1929年前在美国出版的书籍已于2024年1月1日进入公有领域。
我们借助哈蒂信托（HathiTrust）制作的书目目录[Hathifiles](https://www.hathitrust.org/member-libraries/resources-for-librarians/data-resources/hathifiles/)，筛选出1929年前在美国出版的数字化书籍。
本数据集包含超过13万册由互联网档案馆（Internet Archive）代表哈蒂信托成员图书馆完成数字化与处理的书籍。
OCR（光学字符识别）纯文本文件均直接从互联网档案馆网站下载获取。

## 数据集统计
| 文档数量 | UTF-8 GB |
|-----------|----------|
| 137,127 | 73.8 |

## 授权问题
尽管我们致力于生成授权信息完全准确的数据集，但授权洗白与元数据不准确的问题，可能导致我们为部分文档错误分配了错误的授权协议（如需进一步讨论该局限性，请参阅[我们的论文](https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.05209)）。
若您发现本数据集中存在授权信息错误的案例，请在本仓库发起[讨论](https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/discussions/new)。

## 其他版本
本页面为1929年前出版书籍数据集的"raw"版本。
若您需查找用于训练[Comma v0.1](https://huggingface.co/common-pile/comma-v0.1)的过滤后版本，可点击[此处](https://huggingface.co/datasets/common-pile/pre_1929_books_filtered)获取。

## 引用说明
若您使用本数据集，请引用如下文献：
bibtex
@article{kandpal2025common,
title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben and Elie Bakouch and John David and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2025}
}