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.eMunch数据集收录了挪威画家爱德华·蒙克（Edvard Munch，1863-1944）往来的8527封书信的元数据。该数据集源自奥斯陆蒙克博物馆希尔德·伯（Hilde Bøe）主持编纂的《爱德华·蒙克作品集》数字学术版eMunch.no。eMunch数据集是NorKorr——挪威书信集项目的组成部分，该项目旨在收录挪威学术与文化遗产机构馆藏的全部书信元数据，其项目官网托管于GitHub平台。研发了一款Python脚本，用于解析eMunch.no平台上的XML文件及补充数据文件：含更新后日期的Excel表格、标注地点地理名称标识符（GeoNames IDs）的CSV文件，并提取以下元数据：发件人姓名、收件人姓名、地点名称、信函日期以及学术版中的信函编号。随后这些元数据被转换为书信元数据交换格式（Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format，CMIF）。完整数据集已被整合至由柏林-勃兰登堡科学院托管的国际学术版书信检索服务CorrespSearch中，附CorrespSearch官网链接。