Likely percentage of the optical character recognised word count of the average issue of the Caledonian Mercury for a given year to be duplicate material, with associated data

It also contains a data table containing the OCR-calculated word count for each issue, the minimum duplicate material percentage for each issue, and the extrapolated word counts and percentages for each content type ( Data_Wordcounts_CaledonianMercury_1820_1840.tsv ).

The data set was derived from the British Library 19th Century Newspapers, Part 1 digital collection ( gale.cengage.co.uk/british-library-newspapers/19th-century-british-library-newspapers-part-i.aspx ) using the Scissors-and-Paste Console v.0.4.2 ( doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1207283 ) Further details are available in the included documentation file ( readme.docx ) and on the websites listed below.