README.md

---
language:
- fi
- sv
- la
- de
tags:
- medieval
- charters
- diplomata
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
license: cc0-1.0
pretty_name: Diplomatarium Fennicum dataset
---
# Diplomatarium Fennicum-dataset

## Dataset summary

Dataset consisting of eight data fields taken from the Diplomatarium Fennicum -database. 

Diplomatarium Fennicum -database (df.narc.fi) contains medieval charters and text excerpts conserning Finland and Finns, 
and is published and maintained by the National Archives of Finland.

The data fields selected are central to identifying, categorizing and analyzing the texts. 
The dataset represents only very minimally the whole database; the selected data have been cleaned and combined, 
to make it also human legible. The dataset is intended to be used for various experiments and tests on medieval data 
in the fields of digital humanities, data analytics and linguistics.

## Description of data

- **df** -column is the unique identifier for the textual entity (usually an individual charter).
- **dating_start_year** -column gives the starting year for the time period when the document was published. If the dating is exact, this is the only temporal value given.
- **dating_end_year** -column gives the ending year for the time period when the document was published. If the dating is exact, this column is empty.
- **issuingplace**: If identifiable, the issuing place of the document. Name forms in several languages, mainly in Finnish and Swedish.
- **issuingplacecountry**: The country in which the place of issue is or was located.
- **language**: language or languages of the document with values given in Finnish.
- **indexterm**: Index terms in Finnish, concerning both the form of the document as well as its contents.
- **transcript**: The text of the charter, given according to Reinhold Hausen's Finlands Medeltidsurkunder I-VIII (1910-1935) or his Registrum Ecclesiae Aboensis (1890).