Abstract

Combining human expertise with book-consumers data may generate what is needed to sustain constant changes experienced in the book publishing market. Then, building and making available datasets that entirely comprise the essential elements of the book industry ecosystem is of great importance. However, little has been done in such a context regarding non-English languages, such as Portuguese. Hence, in this work, we introduce PPORTAL, a Public domain PORTuguese-lAnguage Literature dataset composed of books-related metadata. Besides a high-level overview of the building process and dataset content, we provide a brief exploratory data analysis to summarize its main characteristics. Moreover, we highlight possible applications to be elaborated, showing how PPORTAL can be used as a resource within different research domains.