IMAGO JSON: Annotated Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Works

JSON annotations for works from medieval manuscripts and printed editions, created by scholars using the IMAGO Annotation Tool. The 11.7 MB repository includes structured information on authors, toponyms, genres, and holding libraries. A corresponding JSON schema is provided as a TXT file detailing the data structure.

Use Cases

• Train named entity recognition models based on annotated author and toponym references.
• Analyze genre distribution and classification in medieval literature based on structured genre tags.
• Build knowledge graphs linking manuscripts, authors, and holding institutions based on the structured JSON relationships.
• Develop search and discovery tools for cultural heritage archives based on the annotated metadata.

Strengths

• Includes a dedicated JSON schema file (TXT) that describes the data structure and key-value pairs.
• Data is explicitly structured to include authors, toponyms, literary genres, and library holdings.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the schema after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

IMAGO project (https://imagoarchive.it/en/index.html)

Collection Method

Annotations produced by scholars using the IMAGO Annotation Tool.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 09:42:36.