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Bibliographical Information

The bibliographical information included with the Paid edition of the BCCWJ is offered in the following categories.

• Bibliographical information data (Bibliography.txt)
  Information related to the original sources the samples were taken from.
• Sample Information data (Sample_info.txt)
  Information on the Sample IDs and acquisition methods.
• Directory Data (Directory.txt)
  Information on the authors and copyright holders of samples.
• Article Information Data (Article.txt)
  Information on the authors of sections of articles, and their first appearances.
• Sample ID-based bilbliographic information data
  Bilbiographical information based on the Sample IDs outputted by "Chuunagon". The following sections will give an outline of the organization of the above information.

* Reference: Maruyama, Yamazaki, Kashino et al. (2011). Applications of principles of data sampling for the BCCWJ., Proceedings of the 2010 Special "Japanese Language Corpus" research group.

Bibliographical Information Data (Bibliography.txt)

Data relating to the bilbliographical information (in Bibliography.txt) on the original texts samples were extracted from is presented as in the 15 examples in table 8-1.

Organization of Bibliographical Information Data

　The table in the link below gives illustrations of the different types of bibliographical information given. It is presented in 15 tab-delimited columns. A "-" in a tab indicates that no information of that type is given for the media in question.

Bibliographical Information Data Examples

Sample Information Data (Sample_info.txt)

Data related to sampling information of the original text (in Sample_info.txt) includes sample IDs and information related to acquisition methods, as shown in the five examples in table 8-3.

Organization of Sampling Information Data

Sampling Information Data examples can be found in table 8-4.

"Sampling Information Data" Examples

Directory Data (Directory.txt)

　The directory information (in Directory.txt) is made up of the information regarding author and organization names (such as the author themselves, the editor, editor-in-chief, etc.) found in the "Author Information" (Bib_author) fields of the bibliographical data file (Bibliography.txt), as well as the names of the actual authors of the individual sections of an article. The data is organized as shown in the table below.

Organization of Directory Data

An example of directory information is found in the following table.

"Directory Data" Examples

Article Information Data (Article.txt)

　The article information data (in Article.txt) aims to give information related to the actual author of the "Articles" contained in each sample, as well as giving the dates of their first appearance. The data is organized as shown in the table below.

Examples of article information data can be found in the following table.

"Article Information Data" Examples

Please note that article information data is only give for the "Book", "Journal/magazine" and "Newspaper" registers.