Internet Archive Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery (includes fulltext for 1800-1922 books)
HathiTrust Book Collection inwards Google BigQuery
There is evidently a lot of mapping potential inwards all those 3.5 meg books. For representative you lot could map the issue of books published past times place past times year. This GDELT Project map uses CartoDB's Torque library to produce simply that.
The map shows all the books from the HathiTrust collection. The HathiTrust collection contains millions of titles digitized from libraries simply about the world. This map shows the locations of all the locations mentioned inwards the collection from 1800-2011. One obvious designing is the increment of North American locations mentioned inwards the books equally the years pass.
If you lot desire to source using the 2 BigQuery tables yourself together with then this GDELT Project introduction Google BigQuery + 3.5M Books: Sample Queries should seek useful. The article includes a issue of sample queries which you lot tin run on either of the 2 BigQuery datasets. It equally good includes a twain of maps made from information obtained from sample queries.
One of the representative maps shows locations made inwards Civil War related books (screenshot above). The other representative maps all books published 1900 to 1920 alongside the bailiwick tag 'World War'.
