Datasets

The Library of Congress acquires, preserves, and provides enduring access to fixed datasets selected by subject experts. Datasets provide material for the emergent data science community to build upon, and the Library strives to cultivate a broad collection that is of use to researchers interested in a variety of topics, including open Citizen Science, machine learning, digital humanities, and government.

The LC team created two derivative datasets which would provide researchers smaller bits of data to help users engage with and learn more from our archives.

The Slave Voyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas.

The HathiTrust collection comprises works from more than 60 different libraries located in the United States and around the world. Bibliographic records represent many different cataloging practices and may even be in different languages.

Humanities Data seeks to help collect and disseminate information about publicly available data of particular interest to digital humanities and humanities computing. It is founded on the premise that open data will be crucial for the future of digital humanities.

The World-Historical Dataverse Project s intended to the contribute to creation of a comprehensive set of data on social-scientific, health, and environmental data for the world as a whole and for its constituent regions and localities, for the past four or five centuries.

Read free research data and market intelligence on the UK film industry and other screen sectors.

For data-driven journalism it provides sources of data for politics, sports, science, and economics.

The journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities research objects or techniques with high potential for reuse. Humanities subjects of interest to JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Library Science, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc.

Includes the world's most comprehensive and detailed democracy ratings.

ANES is a joint collaboration between the University of Michigan and Stanford University that conducts academically-run national surveys of voters in the United States before and after every presidential election since 1948.

ARDA is a free source of online information related to American and international religion. One of the primary goals of the archive is to democratize access to academic information on religion by making this information as widely accessible as possible.