Promptuarium genealogicum by families (image links, transcriptions)

Description

This dataset contains image links, full texts and metadata of the 7 volumes of the "Promptuarium genealogicum" by Carl Keller-Escher (1851-1916). This genealogical work of around 2800 pages contains information on members of 258 historical Zurich families, some dating back to the 16th century.

All pages were transcribed by hand by volunteers between July 2022 and July 2024 as part of a citizen science project at Zurich Central Library and reviewed by an editorial team. The transcriptions were published together with the digital copies on the e-manuscripta.ch platform. The project and the citizen scientists involved are described on this page: https://www.zb.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns/citizen-science/zuercher-familiengeschichte-den-keller-escher-transkribieren

The dataset contains:

The metadata (in the "metadata" folder) for the seven volumes as XML files in METS format. The files originate from the OAI interface of e-manuscripta.ch.

The images and full texts, sorted by surname (in the "data" folder), according to the structure of the METS XML metadata. The full texts (=transcriptions) are available in HTML and in an extended implementation of Markdown /Plaintext format. The images are available as links to the JPEG files on e-manuscripta.ch in the best possible quality.

The images are licensed under PDM 1.0. The transcriptions are licensed under CC-BY-SA (with attribution to the transcriber named on e-manuscripta.ch) or CC0 if the name of the transcriber is unknown.

For transcription guidelines, Markdown implementation and abbreviations, see https://www.zb.uzh.ch/storage/app/media/ueber-uns/Citizen-Science/Familiengeschichte/Stylesheet_Transkriptionen_Familiengeschichte.pdf