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This document provides pointers to some sample public data provided for hands-on work in XQuery and XForms courses organized by Black Mesa Technologies.

The small samples are intended to be small enough to fit on a screen or a few screens, so that you can tell at a glance whether a given query has returned all the hits you expected or not.

The larger samples are intended to be large enough that queries across them may be a little more interesting.

WordHoard Shakespeare

The MONK (Metadata offer new knowledge) project developed a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. It also encoded some texts for use with that environment, and/or repackaged texts already encoded and refined the tagging.

The Shakespeare distributed by MONK was originally created as the WordHoard Shakespeare and carries the following publication statement:

The WordHoard Shakespeare is a joint project of the Perseus Project at Tufts University, The Northwestern University Library, and Northwestern University Academic Technologies. It is derived from The Globe Shakespeare, the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare, edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright (1891-3). The Internet Shakespeare editions of the quartos and folios have been consulted to create a modern text that observes as closely as possible the morphological and prosodic practices of the earliest editions. Spellings, especially of contracted and hyphenated forms, have been standardized across the corpus. The text has been fully lemmatized and morphosyntactically tagged.

© 2003. The copyright to The WordHoard Shakespeare is owned jointly by Northwestern University and Tufts University. The WordHoard Shakespeare is provided for free solely for non-commercial use by students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication of it, in whole or in part, without prior written authorization of the copyright holders is strictly prohibited.

Please note and respect the conditions of use.

Sonnet 92 (basic form) Sonnet 92 with part-of-speech tagging (adorned, in MONK terms) Sonnets (unadorned) Sonnets (adorned) Unadorned version (all of Shakespeare) Bibliographically enriched, and word-tagged (all of Shakespeare)

Foreign Relations of the US

A sample volume from the Foreign Relations of the United States, a publication of the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, providing the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. For further information, see the series web site.

A digital facsimile (page-image) edition of the volumes from 1861 (the start of the series) to 1960 is being prepared by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.

The volume used here as an example is Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXIV, Middle East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1969–1972; Jordan, September 1970, ed. Linda W. Qaimmaqami and Adam M. Howard; general editor Edward C. Keefer (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2008).

TEI-encoded XML document (unstyled), made available through the kindness of Joe Wicentowski of the State Department Office of the Historian. Web presentation of the volume (driven from the TEI-encoded document listed above).

Full-text use-case data

This is a copy of the sample data used for illustrative purposes in the XQuery full-text use-cases document document; it is copied from section 1.5 of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 Use Cases, ed. Pat Case and Sihem Amer-Yahia ([Cambridge]: W3C, 2011).

Full-text sample data.

SGML '92 sample

This is a copy of the sample document used in an influential evening workshop on query languages for SGML at the SGML '92 conference organized by the Graphic Communications Association (now IDEAlliance) in Danvers, Massachusetts. This copy is derived from that given in section 1.5.3 of the document XML Query Use Cases, ed. Don Chamberlin et al. ([Cambridge]: W3C, 2007).

XML version of report (unstyled). DTD.

StratML sample data

This is a collection of documents (mostly strategic plans and the like) encoded using StratML (Strategy Markup Language).

Full description and list of documents.

Other samples

The data listed below may be interesting to use for individual exercises and exploration.

Short poems by Oscar Wilde

Poems by Oscar Wilde; all are from the CELT project (see below). In principle the XML links should go to the CELT project site, but that leads to DTD issues. So they go to local copies on a Black Mesa Technologies host, with commented-out DTDs.

Sonnet to Liberty (HTML). Hélas! (HTML). To Milton (HTML). The Grave of Keats (HTML). The Grave of Shelley (HTML).

Gorbals census data

There is a group of XML documents with small samples of data from the British censuses of 1851 and 1881 for one street in the Gorbals, a working-class district of Glasgow.

Full description and list of data files

Full texts from CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts

The CELT project is creating a corpus of Irish texts, some in the original languages (Irish, Latin, French, Spanish, English) and others in English translation. The CELT site has a list of published works with links to HTML versions of the documents. The XML and SGML links, however, go to an FTP site no longer in service. The XML documents are however accessible (for now, at least) on a different server described by the project as experimental.

The project's list of frequently asked questions describes the copyright of CELT texts this way:

Q. 16 What about the copyright of CELT texts?

A. All the texts can be searched, read on screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out for *private* use and research. If you use our texts in your research, please credit us in your published results (e.g. conference paper, journal article, on the web or in a monograph). Links can be made from other websites to CELT, but please do not download our texts and make them available on your server. We usually contact copyright holders of the texts we use and ask them for permission. If we have inadvertently published a text still in copyright, please contact us so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

In accordance with the project's request, the documents listed below are not available on the course server; the links below go to CELT's server.

Some examples and exercises in the course may be drawn from the following CELT texts. Some are by Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (HTML) A Tale of a Tub (HTML) The Battle of the Books (HTML) Others are by Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan (HTML) A Woman of No Importance (HTML) An Ideal Husband (HTML) The Importance of Being Earnest (HTML)