The “Book of Negroes” (original title) is a register in which were entered the names of Black people who evacuated New York on British ships to Nova Scotia from April to November 1783, following the American Revolution. Before the publication on November 30, 1782, of the preliminary articles of the Treaty of Paris, former enslaved persons that had joined the British during the war were considered free British subjects. Wanting to avoid contravening article 7 regarding the transportation of Black people, Guy Carleton, commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America, ordered that the name of every Black person on board British ships leaving the port of New York and descriptive information about them be recorded. Had it been later declared that they had not respected the treaty, the British would have used the register to compensate American enslavers. This dataset is based on a microfilmed copy in the collection of Library and Archives Canada (LAC; British Headquarters papers fonds R7902, MG23-B1; microfilm M–369) of the original register preserved at The National Archives, in England, in the Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Papers (PRO 30/55/100). The Sir Guy Carleton branch of the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada (UELAC), with the help of volunteers and researchers, indexed the information from the microfilm and created a database on a CD-ROM. LAC later partnered with the UELAC and used the CD-ROM to create a searchable online database, from which this dataset is derived, sometime prior to 2015. It contains entries for 2,831 individuals (men, women and children). Depending on the details contained in the actual record, their names, age, gender, physical characteristics, occupation, information about their family, military service, place of origin, previous and current legal status, names of former enslavers or claimants, destination, ships, and name of shipmasters are provided. Added fields include ID numbers and citation information.

The Soil and Terrain database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SOTERLAC), version 2.0, at scale 1:5 million, replaces version 1.02. The update includes changes in the GIS file and in the attributes database. The topographic base of the SOTERLAC map was adapted to a version congruent to the Digital Chart of the World. The SOTERLAC attribute database has changed in respect to the number of ... pedon attributes that can be stored. Contrary to the preceding, compact version, version 2.0 can accommodate all pedon attributes considered in a 1:1 million scale SOTER database. SOTERLAC forms a part of the ongoing activities of ISRIC, FAO and UNEP to update the world's baseline information on natural resources.The project involved collaboration with national soil institutes from the countries in the region as well as individual experts