Correspondence Metadata from the Digital Scholarly Edition of Edvard Munch's Writings

The eMunch dataset contains correspondence metadata of 8.527 letters to and from the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The dataset is derived from the digital scholarly edition of Edvard Munch's Writings, eMunch.no, edited by Hilde Bøe, The Munch Museum, Oslo. The eMunch dataset is part of the NorKorr - Norwegian Correspondences project that aims to collect metadata from all correspondences in collections of Norwegian academic and cultural heritage institutions, project website on GitHub. A Python script was developed to parse the XML files on eMunch.no and supplementary data files (Excel spreadsheet with updated dates, CSV file with GeoNames IDs for places) and extract the following metadata: sender's name, receiver's name, place name, date, and letter ID in the scholarly edition. These metadata were then converted into the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF). The entire dataset has been integrated into the international CorrespSearch search service for scholarly editions of letters hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences—link to the CorrespSearch website.