Add dataset: [bnl_newspapers1841-1879]

[ymaurer]

A URL for this dataset

https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/

Dataset description

630.709 articles from historical newspapers (1841-1879) along with metadata and the full text.

21 newspaper titles
24.415 newspaper issues
99.957 scanned pages
Transcribed using a variety of OCR engines and corrected using https://github.com/natliblux/nautilusocr (95% threshold)

The newspapers used are:

• Der Arbeiter (1878)
• L'Arlequin (1848-1848)
• L'Avenir (1868-1871)
• Courrier du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1844-1868)
• Cäcilia (1863-1871)
• Diekircher Wochenblatt (1841-1848)
• Le Gratis luxembourgeois (1857-1858)
• L'Indépendance luxembourgeoise (1871-1879)
• Kirchlicher Anzeiger für die Diözese Luxemburg (1871-1879)
• La Gazette du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1878)
• Luxemburger Anzeiger (1856)
• Luxemburger Bauernzeitung (1857)
• Luxemburger Volks-Freund (1869-1876)
• Luxemburger Wort (1848-1879)
• Luxemburger Zeitung (1844-1845)
• Luxemburger Zeitung = Journal de Luxembourg (1858-1859)
• L'Union (1860-1871)
• Das Vaterland (1869-1870)
• Der Volksfreund (1848-1849)
• Der Wächter an der Sauer (1849-1869)
• D'Wäschfra (1868-1879)

Dataset modality

Text

Dataset licence

Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication and Certification

Other licence

No response

How can you access this data

As a download from a repository/website

size of dataset

500MB-2GB

Confirm the dataset has an open licence

• To the best of my knowledge, this dataset is accessible via an open licence

Contact details for data custodian

[email protected]

[ymaurer]

I'll add it to:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/bnl_newspapers1841-1879