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title: welsh-texts
canonical_url: "https://www.modelscope.cn/datasets/openai-mirror/welsh-texts"
md_url: "https://www.modelscope.cn/datasets/openai-mirror/welsh-texts.md"
repository: openai-mirror/welsh-texts
last_updated: 2025-01-08
license: "Apache License 2.0"
storage_size: "2.8 GB"
downloads: 1413
stars: 0
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# welsh-texts

> welsh-texts - openai-mirror 在 ModelScope 开源的数据集。The National Library of Wales and The Welsh Government have authorized the hosting, distribution, and use of this dataset for public use, including research, scholarship, and machine learning.

openai-mirror/welsh-texts 是 ModelScope 魔搭社区上的数据集，存储大小 2.8 GB，采用 Apache License 2.0 许可。

- **Repository**: openai-mirror/welsh-texts
- **License**: Apache License 2.0
- **Storage size**: 2.8 GB
- **Downloads**: 1413
- **Stars**: 0
- **Last updated**: 2025-01-08

Source: https://www.modelscope.cn/datasets/openai-mirror/welsh-texts

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The National Library of Wales and The Welsh Government have authorized the hosting, distribution, and use of this dataset for public use, including research, scholarship, and machine learning.

License: CC-BY-SA

This dataset contains a variety of printed / handwritten material from Welsh sources, mostly in the Welsh language:
- Drych y Prif Oesoedd by Theophilus Evans - a book on the early history of Wales (published 1716)
- Enwogion Cymreig by Thomas Morgan - a book cataloging prominent figures in Welsh history (published 1907)
- Cronicl Elis Gruffudd by Elis Gruffudd - a handwritten manuscript on history (published 1552).
- Bibliographic index cards (bitonal digitization from microfiche). Contains a "blue" set (lower legibility, mix of print and handwritten, 1-up to a page) and a "green" set (better legibility, variable typeface but all printed, 4-up to a page). These are largely in English
- Emigrant Letters (Mostly welsh language, handwritten) from Henry Jones who migrated to Holland Patent, New York in 1850
- American Civil War letters - Welsh letters from members of the Winsconsin Volunteers (Union Army) 23rd & 24th regiment.

The dataset is packaged with Parquet. Each source is formatted as a collection of image files (either JPEG2000 or PNG).

For a subset of the material (Drych y Prif Oesoedd, Enowogion Cymreig, Bibliographic catalog index cards), we also provide OCR transcriptions from GPT 4-o (for this cases, the Parquet includes content in a `text` column). These transcriptions are known to contain some errors, although we provide them as they may be helpful in searching through the text or use as a baseline when developing other OCR systems.