CC0 Extension to the Diplomatarium Fennicum Data | HuggingFace and the Diplomatarium Fennicum Web Service Licensing
Hi!
Thanks for your great work. I am currently working on a master's thesis, where the data available in the place registry (https://df.kansallisarkisto.fi/places/) from the Diplomatarium Fennicum would really come in handy. The dataset that is published here on HuggingFace under a CC0 license, does that license also extend to the place registry data on the Diplomatarium Fennicum website? Since there is a lot of overlapping information from the dataset available here on HuggingFace and the place registry dataset that is available to download directly from the web service, I would guess that they share the same license, but I want to be sure before downloading it and using it for my own purposes. (I am developing NER models for Old Swedish as part of my MA thesis.)
Hi!
Great to hear you are interested in using Diplomatarium Fennicum! All the metadata available in DF is freely available to use under the CC0 license, unless stated otherwise (https://df.narc.fi/info/tutorial, "Tekijänoikeudet"-section, only in Finnish unfortunately). The place register was created by the DF team, and is completelty free to use.
Some simple rule-based NER was done in the database itself, but it only extends to the most common variant nameforms (those appearing more than ~3 times in the database). This also included place names. The recognized entities can be searched with the entity search function (https://df.narc.fi/entity/), which also gives the recognized variants of the standardized name form. High variance in ortography and difficulty of standardizing place names or connecting them to modern places unfortunately made it impossible to include all the variants into this functionality.
If you have any more needs/questions concering DF, you can contact me directly via email, df@kansallisarkisto.fi. I'll be happy to help!
Best regards,
Lauri Leinonen
Brilliant, thank you very much!
And thanks once again for the great work!🙌