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Data Scraping - potential Danish authors

Summary

The goal of the data collection was to identify people, mainly authors of written media (writers, poets, dramatists, essayists etc.), who could have created one or more of the digitized documents obtained from the Danish Royal Library.

Multiple sites with famous danish personalities were scraped for potential authors.
Data obtained includes:

• Name
• Year of birth (if found)
• Year of death (if found)
• Link to the site with the data

It must be noted, that because not all the scraped sites follow the same standard layout, sometimes the relevant data was not fully extracted.

The recovered data is available for reference in .parquet format as da_people_large.parquet

Sources

• Wikipedia - (Danish speaking authors)

• Wikipedia - (People in the Danish Biographical Dictionary)

• Wikimedia Commons - (Writers from Denmark by name)

Logic

The flowchart is for a broad understanding and is not a fully accurate representation.

The whole python script is provided for reference as scrape_large.py

Made with:

• python 3.12.10

Required libraries for running:

• bs4 4.13.4
• datasets 3.5.0