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Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the Early Copyright Records Collection : 1790 to 1870 - title pages, Rare Book and Special Collection Division By the People transcription campaign title : American Creativity, Early Copyright Title Pages

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Title

  • Transcription dataset from the Early Copyright Records Collection : 1790 to 1870 - title pages, Rare Book and Special Collection Division

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : American Creativity, Early Copyright Title Pages

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages for 97,118 images from the Early Copyright Records Collection digital collection. It contains volunteer-created and -reviewed text, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia. The American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages campaign was fully transcribed and reviewed between October 7, 2021 and completed March 14, 2025.
  • The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/early-copyright/). The campaign consisted of a selection of then-available online images of digitized content from the Early Copyright Records Collection digital collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/early-copyright-materials-of-the-united-states/). The transcription campaign included all title pages from the collection. The title pages were submitted as part of the copyright process, from 1790 to 1970. Copyright law during that time required creators to deposit a printed title page at their local federal district court. Following The Copyright Act of 1870, which modernized and centralized copyright registration, these were transferred to the Library of Congress along with all other early copyright records. See the Early Copyright Records Collection, 1790 to 1870 digital collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/early-copyright-materials-of-the-united-states/) for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information and related resources.
  • This dataset includes: 2024438533.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file and early-copyright_2025-06-02.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages campaign.
  • Note: This dataset may contain UNICODE characters or lengthy transcriptions which may display incorrectly in some spreadsheet editors.

Names

  • By the People (Program), compiler
  • Early Copyright Records Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2025.

Headings

  • -  Copyright--Titles--United States
  • -  Title pages--Specimens
  • -  United States--Imprints

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 2025-06-02."--README file.
  • -  Title from README file.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z649.T5

Source Collection

  • Early Copyright Records Collection, 1790-1870 Copyright title pages.

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024438533

Rights Advisory

  • The text in this dataset was created by volunteers and can be used in many different ways. It is subject to no known copyright restrictions and is free to use and re-use.

Online Format

  • compressed data

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

The Library of Congress is providing access to The Selected Datasets Collection for educational and research purposes. The Library has obtained permission for the use of many materials in the Collection, and presents additional materials for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law. Researchers should watch for modern documents that may be copyrighted (for example, published in the United States more than 95 years ago, or unpublished and the author died less than 70 years ago).

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Early Copyright Records Collection. Transcription dataset from the Early Copyright Records Collection:to 1870 - title pages, Rare Book and Special Collection Division. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024438533/.

APA citation style:

Early Copyright Records Collection. (2025) Transcription dataset from the Early Copyright Records Collection:to 1870 - title pages, Rare Book and Special Collection Division. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024438533/.

MLA citation style:

Early Copyright Records Collection. Transcription dataset from the Early Copyright Records Collection:to 1870 - title pages, Rare Book and Special Collection Division. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024438533/>.