IMAGO JSON: Annotated Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Works

A 11.7 MB JSON file containing structured annotations of works from medieval manuscripts and printed editions. The data was produced by scholars using the IMAGO Annotation Tool for the IMAGO project and was last updated on 2026-04 -23. It includes information such as authors, toponyms, genres, and holding libraries.

Use Cases

• Entity recognition and linking based on annotated authors and toponyms.
• Classification of literary genres based on the structured genre labels.
• Provenance and collection analysis based on library holding information.
• Knowledge graph construction for medieval studies based on the structured JSON relationships.

Strengths

• Includes a provided JSON schema (TXT file) detailing the data structure.
• Data is explicitly structured for scholarly analysis, covering authors, toponyms, genres, and libraries.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the schema after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source manuscripts and the IMAGO project's scope.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Annotations produced by scholars using the IMAGO Annotation Tool.

Time Range

Medieval period (inferred from description of manuscripts and printed editions).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 09:42:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely European, based on common scope of medieval manuscript studies.