Building schematic of Vienna in the late 1920s (Dataset and Codebook)

The building registry of Vienna in the late 1920s was a knowledge base for real estate and finance business. At this time, the registry was published on paper. The  Wienbibliothek im Rathaus scanned the documents and distribute the Häuser-Kataster der Bundeshauptstadt Wien online in PDF format. We converted the PDFs into a machine-readable format.

The dataset includes 42,861 data entries (rows), which stand for buildings and properties, respectively. It includes 12 data fields (columns) as followed:

• Eight data fields originate from the Häuser-Kataster der Bundeshauptstadt Wien with data records from the late 1920s: urban district number, street name, building number, position in a row of buildings, property area, number of floors, year of construction, year of purchase.
• Two data fields have been supplemented to facilitate geotagging. They include data records of the late 2010s: cadastral community number, street name.
• Two data fields have been supplemented to facilitate usability: identification number for each data entry, page number - which refers the the PDF page numbering of the Häuser-Kataster der Bundeshauptstadt Wien.

This repository contains the following files:

• Dataset: The CSV file inlcudes the data records.
• Codebook: The markdown file specifies the dataset format, the data fields and comments the data fields to faciliate the use of the data records.
• Data descriptor: The folder includes the machine-readable Input dataset version 1 and 2 as described in the corresponding Data descriptor.