Princeton Prosody Archive Dataset Generated from T. V. F. Brogan's Original Bibliography

Overview

The Princeton Prosody Archive (PPA) is a full-text searchable database of thousands of digitized books in English published between 1570 and 1923. The Archive collects historical documents and highlights discourses about the study of language, the study of poetry, and where and how these intersect and diverge. Currently, the PPA is comprised of public domain texts held by the HathiTrust Digital Library. It is a Sponsored Project of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton.

Dataset

The spreadsheets in this dataset were generated using T. V. F. Brogan's 1981 bibliography English Versification, 1570-1980: A Reference Guide With a Global Appendix, which provides the foundation for the Archive's holdings. Because the PPA is an ongoing project, we are making the full Brogan dataset available to scholars here, as well as two curated versions that pose particular data problems for us: first, a list of HathiTrust-held excerpts cited in Brogan (HathiTrust does not index periodicals or journals to allow for excerpting, so we have yet to integrate these into the PPA); and second, a list of public domain items that are not held by HathiTrust with their digital and/or analog locations and hyperlinks where available (our platform does not yet support integrating non-HathiTrust material into the PPA). 

Data fields

• ID: unique alphanumerical ID assigned by Brogan
• PPA Checked: indicates whether or not the work is in the PPA
• Hathi? indicates whether or not the work is in the HathiTrust Digital Library 
• YEAR: year of the work's publication
• AUTHOR: author of the work
• TITLE: title of the work
• PUBLISHER: publisher of the work
• EXCERPT: indicates whether or not the work is an excerpt inside of a larger work (such as an article, essay, book chapter, etc)
• JOURNAL: indicates whether or not the work is contained within a journal
• ENUM: indicates multivolume works
• VOLUME IDs: unique alphanumerical IDs for digitized copies of the work assigned by HathiTrust 
• NOTES: discursive notes field for data collectors

additional fields for Not-in-HT_Brogan-List_06.24.19 only:

• In PUL? indicates whether or not the Princeton University Library has a copy of the work
• PUL LOCATION: call number for works held by the Princeton University Library or its shared collections (ReCAP)
• ALTERNATE LOCATION: analog and/or digital locations of works not held by PUL