Author name Fennica
MARC: 100a
Author’s name section’s summary tables offer insights into the dataset’s integrity, illustrating the accepted and discarded author names. An examination of missing values in the original dataset provides transparency regarding data completeness. The inclusion of information on name variants and pseudonyms enriches the analysis, addressing nuances in authorship representation. This comprehensive approach ensures a thorough understanding of the dataset’s composition and the intricacies associated with author identification.
Complete Dataset Overview
Authors
239514 unique authors These final names capture all name variants from the custom author synonyme table, and exclude known pseudonymes (see below). If multiple names for the same author are still observed on this list, they should be added on the author synonyme table.
0 documents have unambiguous author information (NaN%).
Author name conversions Non-trivial conversions from the original raw data to final names.
Subset Analysis: 1809-1917
Top-20 titles and their title counts for period 1809-1917.
The accompanying plot visually underscores the prominence of these authors, emphasizing the metric of the number of unique titles published by each author.
Gender
Gender information is not originally included in Fennica. We enriched the data by linking author names with gender information from various sources, including the HENKO project, the Genderize dataset, and additional records provided by the National Library of Finland. The full list of names and genders can be found here
In total N = 1229782 records. After enrichmnet in total there are records 937104 / (76.2%) with assigned gender. There are 306965 (32.8%) female names, 471839 (50.4%) male names and 158279 (16.9%) unisex names.
