The citation database will be published in the Download service in Kielipankki, the Language Bank of Finland korp.csc.fi/download. The citation database consists of 41 bibliographies of dissertations on dialects in the field of Finnish language. The database contains the following information about each reference: author; publication year; title, publishing information such as publisher and edition information; dissertation identification number (pointing to the dissertations the reference is from). Also some metadata of the author has been manually added to the database: information about gender (male/female) and nationality (domestic/non-domestic). Compiling the data had numerous stages: scanning the bibliographies, text regocnition by ABBYY FineReader 12, modifying the textfiles to csv-files, modifying the csv-files to xls-files, merging the 41 xls-files into one file, and refining the data with OpenRefine and finally manually checking the data. The database comprises 9783 entries (rows). It includes 2657 unique authors and 5520 unique titles.

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