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Philosophical Books
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NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
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La sfida di "Re Cotone". Una nuova storia del capitalismo attraverso la storia delle commodities?
PublicationThe article is divided into two parts. In the first one, it highlights the role of commodities in real economy and it observes the coincidence of their price increase after 2003 and their importance as a research topic particularly in the framework of global history. In the second one, it propose a comparative analysis of two recent books on cotton, considering similarities and differences of their approaches, and the difficult...
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L'industria e la Storia. La lezione di Giorgio Mori
PublicationThe wide contribution of Giorgio Mori for a better understanding of the long-term historical relationships between history and industry is the focus of this chapter. By analysing the long list of books and articles written all along his scientific and academic life it is possible to trace a sort of fil rouge that permits to appreciate the huge effort made by this scholar in offering a fresh and never banal interpretation of the...
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Libellarium: journal for the research of writing, books, and cultural heritage institutions
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Od Safony do Sibylli : o twórczości kobiet, które miały odwagę zmieniać świat
Publication"From Sappho to Sibylla. About the women’s research and literary output preserved in the PAS Gdańsk Library early printed books collection (15th-18th c.)" The main purpose of this study was to present women’s research and literary output preserved in the early printed books collection (15th-18th c.) of the PAS Gdańsk Library (PAN Biblioteka Gdańska). The author mentions the phenomenon of women writing and participation in the...
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Place identity in socialist-modernist building
Open Research DataThe data include 96 individual response of falowiec's residents on the following scales (1) social identification, (2) falowiec’s place identity (3) interest in history of place. Each line represents responses obtained from one participant and his or her demographic characteristics. like gender, age, and education level.
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Quaerendo: A Quarterly Journal from the Low Countries Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books
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Wojciech Chrzanowski dr hab. inż.
PeopleWojciech Chrzanowski was born in 1952 in Toruń. He completed his studies in Chemical Technology in 1975, getting his MSc in Inorganic Technology (specialty: Anti-Corrosion Protection) At the Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology (with distinction). Later this year he was employed in the Department of Analytical Chemistry of then Institute of Chemical Engineering and Measuring Techniques, initially as a technical...
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Kamila Kokot-Kanikuła mgr
PeopleKamila Kokot-Kanikuła is a digital media senior librarian at Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) Library. She works in Digital Archive and Multimedia Creation Department and her main areas of interests include early printed books, digital libraries, Open Access and Open Science. In the Pomeranian Digital Library (PDL) Project she is responsible for creating annual digital plans, transferring files on digital platform, and promoting...
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Average price of a book in Poland (2010-2013)
Open Research DataAlthough the Central Statistical Office does not provide detailed data on the growth rate of book prices, the overall comparison, which includes books, newspapers, magazines as well as drawing and painting articles, shows that the average annual price increase in 2011 amounted to 3.3% in this category. Moreover, as noted, the changes to the VAT Act...
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Structure of the register of immovable monuments by date of individual objects – comparison of 2017 and 2024
Open Research DataThe register of monuments is the primary form of monument protection. The register for monuments in the voivodeship is kept by the voivodeship conservator of monuments in the form of separate books for immovable (book A), movable (book B), and archaeological (book C) monuments. Entries in the register of monuments are made upon application by the owner...
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Cezary Wąs Profesor
PeopleDr. habil. Cezary Was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History, University of Wrocław. Curator of the Museum of Architecture (1986-2021). Author of the books: Antynomie współczesnej architektury sakralnej (Antinomies of the Contemporary Sacred Architecture, 2008), Architektura a dekonstrukcja. Przypadek Petera Eisenmana i Bernarda Tschumiego (Architecture and Deconstruction. The Case of Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi,...
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Revenues from the sale of books in Poland (2009-2013)
Open Research DataAccording to the report "The book market in Poland 2014, the Library of Analysis", nearly 40,000 publishers were registered in Poland until mid-2013, of which it is estimated that only about 2,000-2,500 were active as publishers. According to the estimates of the authors of the Report, the value of the Polish book market in 2013 amounted to PLN 2.68...
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Gdańsk University of Technology graduates’ assessment of individual elements of education in the completed field of study – years 2015-2016
Open Research DataThe dataset includes data from the survey on the Gdańsk University of Technology graduates' from the years 2015-2016 on their assessment of individual elements of education in the completed field of study. The survey was conducted in the period from 2017 to 2018, two years after the respondents obtained graduate status. The research sample included...
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Gdańsk University of Technology graduates’ assessment of individual elements of education in the completed field of study – years 2017-2018
Open Research DataThe dataset includes data from the survey on the Gdańsk University of Technology graduates' from the years 2017-2018 on their assessment of individual elements of education in the completed field of study. The survey was conducted in the period from 2019 to 2020, two years after the respondents obtained graduate status. The research sample included...
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Structure of the register of immovable monuments under the primary function – comparison of 2017 and 2024
Open Research DataThis dataset compares the structure of the register of immovable monuments in Poland under the primary function of objects for 2017 and 2024. The statement included the following primary functions of the monuments: urbanism, sacral, defence, industrial, economic, residential, public utilities, communication, cemeteries, greenery, etc. The dataset has...
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Structure of the register of immovable monuments in terms of the number of monuments by voivodeship – comparison of 2016 and 2024
Open Research DataThis dataset compares the structure of the register of immovable monuments in Poland regarding the number of monuments by voivodeship for 2016 and 2024. Over eight years, the number of immovable monuments has increased (over 9000 monuments increase). The historical regions impact the fact that the most immovable monuments are located in Lower Silesia,...
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Structure of the register of immovable monuments in terms of the number of timber-framed monuments by voivodeship – comparison of 2016 and 2024
Open Research DataThis dataset compares the structure of the register of immovable monuments in Poland regarding the number of timber-framed monuments by voivodeship for 2016 and 2024. The number of timber-framed monuments in 2024 is lower than in 2016 (937 items less). The highest number of timber-framed monuments remains in Lesser Poland (2016 – 1059 monuments, 16,83%;...
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Data on LEGO sets release dates and retail prices combined with aftermarket transaction prices between June 2018 and June 2023.
Open Research DataThe dataset contains LEGO bricks sets item count and pricing history for AI-based set pricing prediction.
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Introduction of SAF-T in selected European countries together with applicable national names
Open Research DataAmong the methods used by individual countries in norder to seal the tax collection the introduction of the Standard Audit File for Tax is one of the most important ones.
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Elgold: gold standard, multi-genre dataset for named entity recognition and linking
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 276 multi-genre texts with marked named entities, which are linked to corresponding Wikipedia articles if available. Each entity was manually verified by at least three people, which makes the dataset a high-quality gold standard for the evaluation of named entity recognition and linking algorithms.
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Elgold partial: News
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 37 English texts scrapped from news websites. In each text, the named entities are marked. Each name entity is linked to the corresponding Wikipedia if possible. All entities were manually verified by at least three people, which makes the dataset a high-quality gold standard for the evaluation of named entity recognition and linking...
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Elgold partial: Automotive blogs
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 34 English texts scrapped from automotive blogs. In each text, the named entities are marked. Each name entity is linked to the corresponding Wikipedia if possible. All entities were manually verified by at least three people, which makes the dataset a high-quality gold standard for the evaluation of named entity recognition and...
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Elgold partial: Movie reviews
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 37 English texts with movie reviews. In each text, the named entities are marked. Each name entity is linked to the corresponding Wikipedia if possible. All entities were manually verified by at least three people, which makes the dataset a high-quality gold standard for the evaluation of named entity recognition and linking algorithms.
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Elgold partial: Job offers
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 34 English texts scrapped from the web portals offering job offers. In each text, the named entities are marked. Each name entity is linked to the corresponding Wikipedia if possible. All entities were manually verified by at least three people, which makes the dataset a high-quality gold standard for the evaluation of named entity...
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Elgold partial: Scientific papers' abstracts
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 87 Scientific papers' abstracts in English randomly chosen from the folowing scientific disciplines: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Humanities, Social Science.
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Elgold partial: Amazon product reviews
Open Research DataThe dataset contains 34 Amazon product reviews in English. In each text, the named entities are marked. Each name entity is linked to the corresponding Wikipedia if possible. All entities were manually verified by at least three people, which makes the dataset a high-quality gold standard for the evaluation of named entity recognition and linking algorithms.
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Wernsdorf - a biography of an 18th century scholar - transcription, photographs and partial translation
Open Research DataThe data set contains the transcription of a large passage of the Latin biography of the eighteenth-century philologist and theologian Gottlieb Wernsdorf (1717-1774), as well as photos of the entire print. A translation from Latin into English and Polish was added to the data set as well (that is, excerpts on the education of both Gottlieb himself,...
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Jacek Pokrzywnicki doktor
PeopleZ wykształcenia jestem filologiem klasycznym. Dyplom magistra i doktora uzyskałem na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Z uczelnią tą jestem związany również zawodowo jako adiunkt w Zakładzie Filologii Klasycznej Instytutu Studiów Klasycznych i Slawistyki na Wydziale Filologicznym. Na co dzień obcuję z łacińskojęzycznymi starymi drukami i rękopisami. Zajmuję się recepcją kultury antycznej w dawnym Gdańsku, na obszarze dawnych Prus Królewskich...
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Jacek Pokrzywnicki dr
PeopleAs classicist I obtained my MA and PhD diploma at the University of Gdańsk. I am also professionally associated with this University as an assistant professor at the Institute of Classical and Slavonic Studies (Faculty of Languages). In my research I interact with Latin old prints and manuscripts. First and foremost I deal with the traces of ancient culture in early modern Gdańsk, but also in the area of former Royal and Ducal...