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014812880
Travels in England, France, Italy and Ireland ... Fourth thousand
1
Non-fiction
014872796
Oud-Nijmegen's Straten, Markten, Pleinen, etc
1
Non-fiction
015106094
English Constitutional History. A text book for students and others
1
Non-fiction
014806042
The Silver Cord: a story
0
Fiction
014919159
Herinneringen van een oud-officier uit het tijdvak van 1793 tot en met 1815. In verband met de viering van het halve eeuwgetijde der herstelling van Neêrland's onafhankelijkheid
0
Fiction
014829368
One Heart, One Way [A tale.]
0
Fiction
014826845
A Little Tour in Ireland: being a visit to Dublin, Galway, Connamara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Glengarriff, Cork, etc. ... By an Oxonian [i.e. S. R. Hole] . With illustrations by John Leech
1
Non-fiction
014810180
A Tale that is Told
0
Fiction
014905478
Handlingar rörande Skandinaviens Historia
1
Non-fiction
014841437
Fra Schweiz og Frankrig, Rejseskildringer af politisk og socialt Indhold
1
Non-fiction
014872467
Biskop J. Nilsson's Visitatsbøger og Reiseoptegnelser 1574-1597, Udgivne ... ved Dr. Y. Nielsen
1
Non-fiction
014871286
Beschrijving van den Helder met het Nieuwe Diep en Huisduinen [With a map.]
0
Fiction
014830201
The Quest of a Heart
0
Fiction
014813552
Quinford [A tale.]
0
Fiction
015105975
Geschichte, Statistik und Urkunden-Sammlung über Wallis
0
Fiction
015210851
Das Inka-Reich. Beiträge zur Staats- und Sittengeschichte des Kaiserthums Tahuantinsuyu. Nach den ältesten spanischen Quellen bearbeitet ... Mit einer Karte, etc
1
Non-fiction
014905184
Sveriges historia under Gustaf II Adolphs regering
1
Non-fiction
014895993
Panorama van Neerlands verleden, door P. J. Andriessen en W. J. Hofdijk [With plates.]
1
Non-fiction
014832322
A Man's Man. A novel
0
Fiction
014867404
Die Nachbarstädte Torgau's: Annaburg, Belgern, Domnitzsch, Düben, Eilenburg, Prettin, Schildau, Wurzen. Geschichtliche Skizze
0
Fiction

British Library 19th-century book genre classifier

🧪 Draft — hf-model-spec-0.1 · Personal working draft, not an HF convention. Feedback via Community tab.

Purpose

A binary text classifier that takes a 19th-century book title and outputs Fiction or Non-fiction. Designed for re-classifying British Library catalogue metadata — especially titles where the existing Dewey or genre annotation is missing or unreliable. Victorian-era English-language publications, BL cataloguing conventions; titles typically 5–30 words.

Data

biglam/blbooksgenre has two other configs (annotated_raw, 4,398 rows with Can't tell / both fiction and non-fiction labels; raw, 55,343 unfiltered records) — use only title_genre_classifiction (1,736 rows) for v1. The other configs become relevant for a v2 active-learning loop but are out of scope here.

Sample rows (20, stratified — 10 Fiction + 10 Non-fiction) live in data/samples.jsonl.

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