build_corpus: Build a Corpus of Works from the Internet Archive

In mariolaespinosa/historicalnetworks: Mapping Historical Citation Networks

Description

build_corpus downloads the OCR text versions of works found by searching the Internet Archive's metadata for the specified ‘keywords' over a given 'date_range' (provided in the format "yyyy TO yyyy"), and it returns a dataframe that includes the Internet Archive’s metadata about the retrieved works along with the location of the corresponding text files.

Usage

build_corpus(
  keywords,
  date_range = "1700 TO 1899",
  download_dir = "data-raw/corpus",
  max_results = 10000,
  chime = TRUE
)

Arguments

keywords	A vector of keywords to search in the metadata of the Internet Archive's text collection
date_range	The desired data range to search, specified in the format "yyyy TO yyyy"
download_dir	The directory (relative to your working directory) to which files from the Internet Archive will be downloaded.
max_results	The maximum number of text results
chime	Should the function chime on completion?

Details

Details needed

Value

A dataframe representing the corpus of downloaded texts

Examples

## Not run: 
 yf_corpus <- build_corpus(keywords = "yellow fever")

## End(Not run)

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