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pretty_name: Grundtvig's Works
language:
- da
license: cc0-1.0
Grundtvig's Works (Grundtvigs Værker)
Grundtvig's Works is a comprehensive digital humanities dataset containing the complete collected writings of Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872), one of Denmark's most influential cultural and intellectual figures.
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
This dataset contains 632 works by N.F.S. Grundtvig of various formats including ... [add a longer description here]
The works are derived from www.grundtvigsværker.dk where they can be further inspected and examined.
- Curated by: Grundtvig Center, Aarhus University
- Uploaded by: Kenneth Enevoldsen
- Funded by [optional]: [More Information Needed]
- Language(s): Primarily Danish (dan), from the 19th century
- License: N.F.S. Grundtvigs works fall under Public Domain (CC0)
Dataset Sources
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- Dataset Website: www.grundtvigsværker.dk
Uses
This dataset represents a major digital preservation effort of Denmark's literary and intellectual heritage, providing structured access to works that shaped Danish theology, education, democracy, and cultural identity. It's valuable for research in digital humanities, Scandinavian studies, religious history, and 19th-century European thought.
In addition, this dataset is also a part of Danish Dynaword, a collection of dataset intended for training language models, thus integrating Danish Cultural Heritage into the next generation of digital technologies.
Dataset Structure
A sample in this dataset is structured as follows:
{
'id': '1824_392_txt', # unique id (1824_* denoted the publishing year)
'title': 'Søgubrot med Efterklang',
'author': 'Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig',
'date': '2019-12-03', # [What is this date?]
'publisher': 'Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University',
# And the text in three different format, XML, markdown (md) and as raw text (txt)
'xml': '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<?xml-stylesheet [...]',
'md': '---\ntitle: Søgubrot med Efterklang\nauthor: Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig\ndate: 2019-12-03\npublisher: Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University\n---\n## Søgubrot med Efterklang [...]',
'txt': 'Søgubrot med Efterklang.\n\n Fama superstes erit, nec in ullum decidet æuum\nQvod perfecta suo patravit tempore virtus.[...]'
}
In addition the raw files can also be accessed directly here.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
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Data Collection and Processing
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Before upload the dataset was provided as XML and .txt files. The XML files were converted to .md and uploaded to Huggingface. The scripts for conversion and upload can be found here and a .lock file specifying the version can be found here.
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Personal and Sensitive Information
This dataset contains no personal or sensitive information.
Bias, Risks, and Limitations
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Recommendations
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Citation [optional]
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More Information
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This dataset was uploaded to Huggingface and processed by Kenneth Enevoldsen.