National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Reports

This collection contains the reports available on the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation website.

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General Information

Added to the Research Data: March 2022

Last update: March 2022

Update periodicity: No update plans at the moment

Available formats: PDF and TXT

Documents’ assets available? No

Documents’ metadata available? No

Data size: 534Mb

Number of files: 15,391

Copyright: Some data are in the public domain while others are subject to copyright. Please consult the data provider website for more details.

Data Subject Area: Historical and modern reports, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), Residential School system.

The Data in Graphs

All content in “National Center for the Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR)” dataset is in PDF format, and text format. The files in this dataset do not contain metadata.

The Data Structure

The files are named according to an unknown naming convention. Each PDF should corresponds to one different edition of the resource. The PDF pages in text format have a numeric suffix that represents the pagination order. It is not associated with the pagination of the document.

PDF Availability

All documents are available in PDF format.

Full-text availability

Full text is available in PDFs and TXT files. The original documents have been OCRised, but note that this process is not perfect, especially for old documents that have deteriorated over time and whose text layout and fonts are not always standard.

Metadata Availability

The files have no metadata, but some metadata were extracted from the data provider’s site and assembled into a TSV file that is available with the other files of this dataset. No quality control of the extracted metadata was performed.

Document’s Bibliographic References

There are no references available for “National Center for the Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR)”