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.
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_namefield 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").
Examples
# date last updated
attr(gutenberg_authors, "date_updated")
#> [1] "2024-09-14"