BIBFRAME Work

Title

Transcription datasets from the Branch Rickey Papers, Manuscript Division

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Branch Rickey

Type

• Collection
• Multimedia

Contribution

• By the People (Program) (compiler)

Subject

Baseball--Scouting--United States (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Data sets (LCGFT)

Language

• eng

Classification

LCC: GV880.22 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• computer dataset
• text

Summary

• This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 1,926 images from the Branch Rickey Papers created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign, Branch Rickey: Changing the Game. It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
• Version 2, description of contents: This dataset includes 2019667234_v2.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file. branch-rickey-changing-the-game-2020-06-16.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image link, and the volunteer-generated transcriptions. This .CSV is the direct export of the Branch Rickey: Changing the Game campaign.
• About versioning: Version 1 of the dataset was initially created on 2019-03-22 by Library of Congress Labs, it includes a direct export of campaign data as well as two CSV files of curated data. Version 2 of the dataset was created 2020-06-16 to include a revised README and an updated campaign data export. Version 3 of the dataset was created 2022-10-19 to include a revised README and tags data in the campaign data export.
• Version 3, description of contents: This dataset includes 2019667234_v3.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file. branch-rickey-changing-the-game_2022-10-19.csv - contains campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Branch Rickey: Changing the Game campaign.
• This dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Branch Rickey: Changing the Game (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/branch-rickey-changing-the-game/). The campaign consisted of a selection of then available online images of digitized content from the Branch Rickey Papers (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000069). The transcription campaign included the scouting reports from the collection's Baseball File series. The reports from the 1950s and 1960s document former player and manager Branch Rickey's skill and candor in analyzing and assessing players and include both famous and unknown players. See the Rickey digital collection for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information, such as bibliographic resources.
• Version 1, description of contents: This data set includes branch-rickey-scouting-reports-data.zip - zip file containing 3 .CSV files and a README file. branch-rickey-scouting-reports_20190322 is a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image link, and the volunteer-generated transcriptions. This .CSV is the direct export of the Branch Rickey Scouting Reports campaign. branch-rickey-scouting-reports_chartforms_20190322 is a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image link, and the volunteer-generated transcription for 183 charts, forms, and player cards removal notices. branch-rickey-scouting-reports_scoutingreports_20190322 is a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image link, and the volunteer-generated transcription for 1,743 narrative scouting reports of varying length and format.
• Note: This dataset may contain UNICODE characters or lengthy transcriptions which may display incorrectly in some spreadsheet editors.

Authorized Access Point

Transcription datasets from the Branch Rickey Papers, Manuscript Division

Geographic Coverage

• United States

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:45.212376+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 21510288

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc