Planned Languages

Content

This data set contains:
◦ 2.818 IIIF 

International Image Interoperability Framework. Standardizes the provision of images and audiovisual data from servers in different web environments...

-Manifests and 310.217 corresponding image files in .jpeg 

Joint Photographic Experts Group. Commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, especially for images created by digital photography...

file format for 2.818 objects held by the Department of Planned Languages,
◦ Metadata to those objects as a dump file in .csv 

Comma Separated Values. File format that describes the structure of a text file with which simply structured data can be saved or exchanged; files i...

file format.

Data Provenance & Quality

The objects relating to this data set have been digitized by the department of digitization of the ONB 

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Austria’s largest library and a cultural and research institution located in Vienna; founded in the 14th century...

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The metadata is based on the library catalogue and contains 2.818 instances relating to as many objects held in the collection of the Department of Planned Languages at the ONB. For more information on the data points and their respective contents check the Readme linked below.
The data set has not been cleaned, augmented or corrected. It does not represent the entirety of the collection at the Department of Planned Languages, but merely an excerpt of it (see Historical Background below). When the data set was originally put together in 2018 only those objects were chosen that had already been catalogized as well as digitized.
The data set comprises 40 languages.

Historical Background

The Department of Planned Languages exists under this name since 1990. However, in 1927 Hugo Steiner founded the International Esperanto Museum, which has been a part of the ONB 

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Austria’s largest library and a cultural and research institution located in Vienna; founded in the 14th century...

since 1928. Today, the Esperanto Museum’s library contains about more than 150.000 items (e.g. 40.000 flyers, 40.000 printed volumes, 25.000 newspaper articles, 22.000 photographs, 20.000 handwritten texts and manuscripts, 4.100 journals). Since 2005, the Esperanto Museum is located in Palais Mollard, Herrengasse 9, Vienna.