To produce a corpus of ZIF-8 synthesis protocols, we initially followed established methods to download collections of papers and identify synthesis protocols within them. Synthesis papers were identified by searching the SCOPUS database using Elsevier's elsapy software (). Papers were identified using the search term "ZIF OR zeolitic imidazol* AND synthesis," returning 4198 results. These were then categorised by publisher, from which the three largest groups were targeted for downloading (ACS, RSC, and Elsevier), reducing the total corpus to 3179 papers. XML or HTML versions of each paper were then downloaded according to their publisher's specifications -using elsapy in the case of Elsevier, web scraping in the case of the RSC, and through the text and data mining service at the ACS.