# eltec_pol

ELTeC-pol (European Literary Text Collection, Polish)

## Dataset description
- **Source (upstream):** https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-pol
- **Domain:** literature
- **Language:** Polish (pl)
- **License:** `CC-BY-4.0`
- **Created (range):** 1840-01-01, 1920-12-31
- **Added:** 2026-06-15

## Licensing — traceable basis
ELTeC corpora are released under CC-BY 4.0 by the COST Action 'Distant Reading for European Literary History' (CA16204). eltec_pol.attribution.jsonl gives, per document, the ELTeC record id (POL0001 to POL0100) and file, author, title, the print edition and the digital source named in the TEI header, the commit and SHA-256 of the TEI file, the credit line and the licence URL (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The ELTeC copy is the one released in all 100 rows; no Wolne Lektury text replaces one (the 50 novels that are also in Wolne Lektury are listed per row with their dropped Wolne Lektury copies). Our assessment is that these are ELTeC's modernised versions of the texts, like Wolne Lektury's. ELTeC's table names a print edition year for 99 documents and a first-edition year for 2, and no digital edition for any (the field is empty for all 100). The TEI headers (COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-pol commit 95fe196e, read 2026-10-20) give the print edition of 99 texts (title, place, publisher, year; 1846 to 1939), the first edition of 2 and the digital source of all 100 (46 are Wolne Lektury pages, 48 Polona, 3 Wikisource). No header names an editor of a print edition: none has an <editor> or an <editionStmt>. One names the person who encoded the text, and the revision log names a converter by initials only. The latest author death year is 1953.

## Provenance
Fetched directly from the COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-pol GitHub repository (level1 TEI) by src/fetch_eltec.py; reading text extracted from the TEI <body>: the text of each <p> (no TEI file has a <note> element) and of each <head> (chapter and section titles: 1,805 in 81 novels, 16,187 characters), each as a paragraph of its own in the order of the file; the pieces of a paragraph joined by a space, whitespace collapsed, empty paragraphs dropped. Two parts outside <body> are kept as well (maintainer's decision of 2026-10-20): the author's address to the reader in the <front> of eltec_pol_2455330 (2 paragraphs, 7,498 characters) and the appendix 'Dodatek' in the <back> of eltec_pol_2455321 (60 paragraphs, 11,937 characters). Left out: the title pages in the <front> of the other 99 novels (4,055 characters; author's name, title and sometimes a subtitle) and 13 characters of quotation fragments in 2 novels (left_out_by_the_extractor in the evidence file). Up to v0.2.5 the text was the <p> text only; the restored paragraphs (82 rows changed, 18 unchanged) are listed by position in artifacts/rights_audit_2026-10/literary/eltec_tei.jsonl, and the text without them is the v0.2.5 text. The space join leaves a space before punctuation after an inline element in 96 of the 100 texts (4,491 places). The only later change to a text is trimming leading and trailing whitespace; after the extraction no paragraph is removed. src/build_eltec_pol_attribution.py fills `author`, restores the paragraphs from the pinned TEI files, counts `token_count` again for the changed rows and writes the sidecar and eltec_pol.license-evidence.json (the sidecar's text_sha1 is checked per row).

## Statistics
| documents | characters | tokens (tiktoken proxy) |
|---:|---:|---:|
| 100 | 54,408,605 | 21,504,056 |


## Per-document license metadata
| license | documents |
|---|---:|
| `CC-BY-4.0` | 100 |

Author metadata present for **100** documents. Empty values mean the upstream record did not expose a machine-readable author field.

## Legal scope note
Flagged, nothing excluded (polish-dynaword-v2#109). 3 documents (eltec_pol_2455254, eltec_pol_2455279, eltec_pol_2455281) carry 150 numbered note markers (1, 61 and 88) and no note text, and their TEI files hold none either (no <note> element; <front> is title-page lines, <back> is empty), so the notes are missing from ELTeC's files and the files do not say whose notes they would be. A fourth document (eltec_pol_2455282) has 33 markers, 17 of them in 17 note paragraphs of the text (569 characters). No TEI header names an editor of a print edition. One document (eltec_pol_2455267) keeps period spelling by our heuristic count, so the modernisation is not uniform. 10 documents contain a "Przedmowa" or "Wstęp" heading (4 of the "Wstęp" ones are chapter titles, restored with the other chapter titles); we read these as the authors' own and kept them. The appendix 'Dodatek' of eltec_pol_2455321 is the author's draft passages for a chapter, as in Wolne Lektury's text, whose base is S. Pigoń's edition (Glob, 1985), not the 1908 print the TEI header names; its short labels ('Brulionowe rzuty rozdziału...', '(A)', '[Rękopis nieczytelny]') are the editor's and are kept with the drafts. 4 documents contain 3,649 soft hyphens (U+00AD), invisible line-break hints that were digitised with the text.

Statistics were recomputed directly from the released parquet file.

## Filters applied (build_dynaword.py)
Minimal, per Dynaword guidelines (heavy filtering left to downstream use):
- drop documents < 200 chars: **0**
- drop non-Polish (diacritic ratio): **0**
- exact cross-source dedup (sha1): **0**
- OCR alpha-ratio < 0.70 (OCR sources only): **0**
- read 100 → kept 100

Token counts are a fast tiktoken (cl100k) proxy (~1% off Llama-3); the canonical
Llama-3 count is computed at release.