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This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍

Thanks to your people for adding the dataset to the catalog!

Ah, good point. We’ve been treating the data essay and dataset as a single publication, but you’re right that we should probably start recording them separately…

Whoa. This looks like an amazing new dataset from the folks over at @post45data.bsky.social

Thank you for this question and for wanting to increase discoverability!

I think our records show up in WorldCat because we register DOIs. search.worldcat.org/title/109214...

In 2021-2022 I was struggling with just the French data for months before putting that project on hold indefinitely. 😭 Super grateful that others persisted, and looking forward to using it for #MultilingualDH. 🙏

Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....

Hoo boy! I can’t believe it’s happening. We’ve been working on this for years. Thanks to @post45data.bsky.social you can now search our IB database, with a very cool interface!

Please share with anyone who might be interested

Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

HathiTrust Research Cenger Extracted Features 2.5 info card

HathiTrust Research Cenger Extracted Features 2.5 info card

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce a new release of our open-access Extracted Features dataset, a statistical snapshot of:
18,725,868 volumes
6,867,699,164 pages
3,255,304,293,468 tokens
450+ languages

go.illinois.edu/EF25 for details & download
cc:@hathitrust.bsky.social #DH2025

Data Is Plural — Structured Archive

You can find all the Data Is Plural datasets here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If you teach Digital Humanities or anything similar, it's worth exploring, and probably including on your syllabus.

Data Is Plural — 2025.07.16 edition Landfills, car crash datasets, AI legal flubs, British literary prizes, and subway art.

Check out the latest edition of the fantastic Data Is Plural newsletter: www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2025...

You can find data about landfills, car crashes, AI legal flubs, subway art, and... British Literary Prizes! V. exciting to see Katherine Binhammer et al.'s dataset featured in this venue

Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.

data.post45.org/posts/futuri...

cool dataset alert!

Are we getting worse at imagining the future?

Check out the new dataset Grant Wythoff and I just published, “Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction”!

A fascinating dataset that will be of interest to sci-fi scholars and beyond. And co-authored by Cornell Lit in English grad student @teddyleane.bsky.social!

This is an incredible dataset, and it's a lot of fun to play around with it on the Post45 site!

We talk a lot about how plot and character work, but not enough about how setting does. How far back, or forward, stories take place—and whether that historical/speculative distance is changing—is really interesting, and this new dataset is a gift! Bravo to Grant Wythoff and @teddyleane.bsky.social!

Congrats to the authors, Grant Wythoff and @teddyleane.bsky.social, on this awesome new resource, "Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction"!

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?

Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.

doi.org/10.18737/552...

Why we still need a women’s prize for fiction Some ways we will know we no longer need women’s book prizes: when men read as much writing by women as that by men, and when women begin to dominate prizes for prestige genres such as non-fiction.

Congratulations to Orlando associates Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Maryse Jayasuriya, and Theo Gray on the publication of their work on contemporary literary prizes for women writers. First, their article on "Why We Still Need a Women's Prize for Fiction": theconversation.com/why-we-still...

Check out this piece in @ca.theconversation.com, analyzing gender in the British Literary Prize dataset.

“Our analysis of the dataset shows how there is still a ways to go before women’s writing is valued — awarded, remunerated and read — equally to men’s.”

theconversation.com/why-we-still...

Good time to point out that @post45data.bsky.social also hosts OPEN-ACCESS, SEARCHABLE, and CITABLE data on US literary prizes, Iowa writers, NYT bestsellers, and (my own contribution) the thousands of American writers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts! data.post45.org/our-data.html

The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US – Post45 Data Collective The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes datasets to the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over.

This new dataset would pair well with the fantastic US literary prize dataset by Grossman, Spahr, and Young: data.post45.org/posts/the-in...

New dataset alert! 🎉

We're excited to share a new resource focused on major UK literary prizes, including demographic information about 680+ winning and shortlisted authors.

data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here.

We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org

Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!