British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland: Trade index 1931

Dataset containing data about the Trade index of the British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland for the year 1931. The original focument is on e-manuscripta (https://doi.org/10.7891/e-manuscripta-174832)

This dataset contains

• Mid-resolution imagery used for processing (=images of the pages)
• Page.XML (=Transkribus export data)
• Parsed JSON data (=data of project-specific parser, built to extract named entities)
• Resulting JSON data (=proper data files with authentication data)
• List of consolidated companies

The resulting data contains:

• Information about companies and people (actors) listed in the trade index
• The parser recognizes company and person's names, locations, traded goods,section
• Found company (see list of consolidated companies)
• Found locations and their geo-info (geonames id, label, lat, lng, country, region)
• Found goods and their info (WZ 2008 and ISIC Rev04)
• Section where the actor is listed (WZ 2008 and ISIC Rev04)
• Source metadata and IIIF Snippet data

This data has been created and published as part of the dissertation project 'Lessons to learn? Unfolding a Global Market in Difficult Times'; The British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland 1920 – 1950 (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/211961)