Incunabula Printed Catalogue Dataset Metadata: Volumes 1-10

This dataset includes the combined catalogue entries derived from volumes 1-10 of the "Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now at the British Museum" (know as BMC). The BMC was published between 1908-2007 and comprises detailed descriptions of the incunabula collection at the British Library. The dataset was created as part of an AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship project to enable computational analysis with the catalogue descriptions and to encourage further reuse of the descriptions in online resources and in digital scholarship. It consists of the processed csvs from the individual volumes concatenated into one csv.

本数据集整合了《大英博物馆藏15世纪印刷书籍目录》（British Museum Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the British Museum，简称BMC）第1至10卷的目录著录条目。BMC于1908年至2007年间出版，详细收录了大英图书馆所藏摇篮本（incunabula）的馆藏信息。本数据集系艺术与人文研究委员会-英国大学图书馆联盟（AHRC-RLUK）专业实践奖学金项目的成果，旨在实现目录著录内容的计算分析，并推动此类著录内容在在线资源与数字学术研究中的进一步复用。该数据集由各分卷经预处理后的逗号分隔值（Comma-Separated Values, CSV）文件合并为单个CSV文件而成。