This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
I’m committed to data sharing and reuse. The data listed below is the product of transformations I’ve done myself, using various tools: OpenRefine, especially, but also regex editing in batches.
I’ve tried to post descriptions, changelogs, and data dictionaries in the github repositories. I’m getting better at doing this work systematically, but it’s a hard habit to establish. I’m also trying to post releases via Zenodo, so that each data repository has a DOI.
The material is in a variety of formats: mostly plain text (csv, tsv), some XML, some Turtle (.ttl) for RDF use, and some OpenRefine projects.
Quantity and Quality are shorthand fields meant to offer a quick sense of each dataset. Quantity is number of records or, in the case of tabular datsets, rows x columns. Quality is graded A-D, and refers to the amount of ordering, checking, cleaning, parsing, and enrichment that I’ve achieved. In other words, it’s a measure of my confidence that the data I present represents the content of the original analogue sources.
Person Names (Egypt)
| Name | Year(s) | Format(s) | Quantity | Quality | Link | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Subjects in Alexandria | 1888 | csv, ttl | 1084 x 16 | A | github directory | National Archives of the United Kingdom, FO 881/5968 |
| Indicateur Egyptien | 1897 | csv | 6200 x 25 | A | github directory | Poffandi, Stefano G., ed. 1897 Indicateur Égyptien Administratif et Commercial. 11th ed. (Alexandria: Imprimerie Générale, 1896) |
| Tunisians in Egypt | 1881-4 | csv, tsv, ttl | 303 x 52 | A | github directory | Filib Jallad, Qamus al-idarah wa-al-qadaʾ, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Matbaʿat Dar al-Kutub wa-al-Wathaʾiq al-Qawmiyah, 2003), 2:296–300; Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes - Fonds Alexandrie: Recensement—Tunisiens 69/69–73. |
Ottoman Placenames
| Name | Year(s) | Format(s) | Quantity | Quality | Link | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottoman administrative divisions | 13th-20th centuries | tsv, ttl | 11989 x 25 | A | tsv, ttl, data dictionary | Tahir Sezen’s Osmanlı Yer Adları |
| Ottoman place names | 1530 | tsv | 121080 x 13 | C | github directory | to be supplied |
| Ontology | 13th - 20th centuries | ttl | 7 | C | github directory | me |
Egypt historical data
| Name | Year(s) | Format(s) | Quantity | Quality | Link | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census tables, Alexandria | 1897, 1907, 1917 | csv | B | github directory | originals |
to come:
- Alexandria export data|1905
- Italian indemnities|1882|
- Tribunaux mixtes personnel|
International Law Journals
| Name | Year(s) | Format(s) | Quantity | Quality | Link | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulletin de la Société de législation comparée | 1869-1939 | TEI-XML | 404 issues | C | github directory | various facsimiles |
| Journal du droit international privé et de la jurisprudence comparée (Clunet) | 1874-1939 | TEI-XML | 324 issues | C | github directory | various facsimiles |
| Revue de droit international et de législation comparée | 1869-1939 | TEI-XML | 65 volumes | C- | github directory | various facsimiles |