gutenberg_authors: Metadata about Project Gutenberg authors
Description
Data frame with metadata about each author of a Project
Gutenberg work. Although the Project Gutenberg raw data
also includes metadata on contributors, editors, illustrators,
etc., this dataset contains only people who have been the
single author of at least one work.
Usage
gutenberg_authors
Arguments
Format
A tbl_df (see tibble or dplyr) with one row for each
author, with the columns
gutenberg_author_id
Unique identifier for the author that can
be used to join with the gutenberg_metadata dataset
author
The agent_name field from the original metadata
alias
Alias
birthdate
Year of birth
deathdate
Year of death
wikipedia
Link to Wikipedia article on the author. If there
are multiple, they are "/"-delimited
aliases
Character vector of aliases. If there
are multiple, they are "/"-delimited
Details
To find the date on which this metadata was last updated,
run attr(gutenberg_authors, "date_updated").