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  **Italian-Public Domain-Book** or **Italian-PD-Books** is a large collection aiming to aggregate all Italian monographies in the public domain. As of March 2024, it is the biggest Italian open corpus.
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  ## Dataset summary
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- The collection contains 11,400,353,695 words (150,359 titles) recovered from multiple sources, including Internet Archive and various European national libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Each parquet file has the full text of 2,000 books selected at random.
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  ## Curation method
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  The composition of the dataset adheres to the criteria for public domain works in the EU and, consequently, all Berne-countries for EU authors: any publication whose author is dead for more than 70 years. Additionally, the initial consolidation of public domain status for cultural heritage operates in the EU under the 2019 Copyright Directive (art. 14).
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- As of March 2024, to limit rights verification, we have retained exclusively titles published prior to 1884.
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  The corpus will be expanded at a later stage to encompass late 19th century and early 20th century publications, after checking for public domain validity.
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  **Italian-Public Domain-Book** or **Italian-PD-Books** is a large collection aiming to aggregate all Italian monographies in the public domain. As of March 2024, it is the biggest Italian open corpus.
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  ## Dataset summary
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+ The collection contains 12,604,024,464 words (167,308 titles) recovered from multiple sources, including Internet Archive and various European national libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Each parquet file has the full text of 2,000 books selected at random.
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  ## Curation method
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  The composition of the dataset adheres to the criteria for public domain works in the EU and, consequently, all Berne-countries for EU authors: any publication whose author is dead for more than 70 years. Additionally, the initial consolidation of public domain status for cultural heritage operates in the EU under the 2019 Copyright Directive (art. 14).
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+ As of June 2024, to limit rights verification, we have retained exclusively titles published prior to 1884.
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  The corpus will be expanded at a later stage to encompass late 19th century and early 20th century publications, after checking for public domain validity.
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