glossAPI/freebooks

Data Info:

A collection of Greek digital books harvested from freebooks.gr, a platform providing free digital books in Greek and other languages.The corpus covers a range of literary, educational, religious, scientific, social-science, children's and other Greek-language materials. The corpus contains book metadata together with extracted textual content from downloadable files.Text was extracted from PDF, DOC, DOCX, and EPUB files using native text extraction and OCR where necessary. The dataset contains 472 books.

Dataset Structure:

Field	Description	Filled	Unique values	Example
book_id	Short ID from the freebooks.gr URL	472	472	wZEY
url	Book page on freebooks.gr	472	472	https://freebooks.gr/βιβλίο/wZEY/…
title	Title	467	465	Universo: Η αναζήτηση του χειμώνα
author	Author (dates removed)	464	297	Μαριέλλα Δραγώνα
author_birth	Author's year of birth, when it appears in brackets	13	3	1923
author_death	Author's year of death	13	3	1995
categories	Categories, separated by ;	472	117	Φαντασίας
primary_category	First category	472	79	Ποίηση
n_categories	Number of categories	472	6	1
description	Description from the site	467	456	Η ζωή είναι γεμάτη μυστήρια…
description_chars	Length of the description in characters	472	369	942
file_url	Download link for the source file	467	467	https://freebooks.gr/storage/file/…
file_ext	Source file type	467	4	pdf
book_stem	File name without extension	467	467	wZEY-Universo-Η-αναζήτηση-του-χειμώνα
text_source	Method used to obtain the text	472	6	text layer
has_text	Whether text was successfully extracted	472	2	True
text_chars	Number of characters in the extracted text	472	449	487880
text_words	Number of words in the extracted text	472	446	80339
isbn	ISBN found in the front matter and checksum-validated	208	208	9786180069235
year_detected	Publication year detected from the front matter	379	38	2020
cc_license_detected	Creative Commons licence detected in the book	169	15	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
mentions_open_access	Whether the book mentions free distribution or open access	472	2	True
forbids_commercial_use	Whether a restriction on commercial use was detected	472	2	True
copyright_notice	Whether a copyright notice was detected	472	2	True
all_rights_reserved	Whether an "All rights reserved" statement was detected	472	2	True

Dataset Statistics:

Words:8,279,314

Tokens: 12,156,424

License:

Content is either published under a Creative Commons license or made available with the author’s permission. The specific license should be checked for each individual book.

Contact:

For feedback contact: glossapi.team@eellak.gr

Gated Access:

This dataset is distributed through Hugging Face's gated access mechanism. To request access, please provide a brief description of your project and, where applicable, a project, repository, or company URL.

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