Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers | Journaux Historiques Luxembourgeois Numérisés bnl-historical-newspapers

Name: Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers | Journaux Historiques Luxembourgeois Numérisés
Creator: Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Keywords: alto,bnl,culture,digitisation,digitised,digitized,digitzation,dwaschfra,education,full-text,independance,journal,journalism,journaux,librairies,library,lunion,luxemburger-wort,machine-learning,mets,mods,news,newspaper,numerisation,numerise,ocr,plein-texte,research,technology,tiff,xml

Updated on November 15, 2022 — Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg

La Bibliothèque nationale est un lieu public ouvert à tous situé au Kirchberg, Luxembourg. La BnL conserve, collecte et catalogue toutes les publications éditées au Luxembourg ainsi que celles parues à l’étranger en rapport avec le Grand-Duché. Elle est la principale bibliothèque patrimoniale,…

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License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
ID: 5bab43c860beb277d3ce9986

Temporality

Temporal coverage: 1845 to 1877
Frequency: Irregular
Creation date: September 26, 2018
Latest resource update: November 15, 2022

Geographic dimensions

Territorial coverage granularity: Other

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English Version

Since 2002, the BnL has been digitising a large variety of historical documents such as newspapers, monographs, manuscripts, postcards and even posters. All digitised materials are available for viewing through its platforms a-z.lu and eluxemburgensia.lu. In addition, some datasets are now in the public domain and are made available here.

Please, visit http://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/ to learn more about the data, associated metadata and format used.

Version française

Depuis 2002, la BnL digitalise une grande quantité de documents historiques tels que des journaux, monographies, manuscrits, cartes postales et même des affiches. Tous les documents numérisés sont disponibles à la consultation sur les plateformes a-z.lu et eluxemburgensia.lu. De plus, certains sets de données sont dans le domaine public et sont mises à disposition sur ce site.

Veuillez visitez http://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/ pour en apprendre davantage sur les données, les métadonnées associées ainsi que les formats utilisés.

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Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - TEXT ANALYSIS PACK - JSONL

Updated on November 15, 2022 — zip (618.1Mo) — 2 downloads

Best for getting started with text analysis

This set contains 630709 exported articles from 1841 to 1879 (39 years of news) created by processing 24415 newspaper issues and 99957 pages. It consists of a single JSONL file with one line per article with the full text and metadata. The contents is the same as the XML, it's just differently formatted.

URL: https://data.bnl.lu/open-data/digitization/newspapers/export03-newspapers1841-1879-jsonl.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/753b7872-a25c-4617-a13e-fd6385aae692
Type: Main file
MIME Type: application/zip
sha1: 69be15dddf0c4ad9609a4b8c263e93ac0024329d
Created on: November 15, 2022
Modified on: November 15, 2022
Published on: November 15, 2022

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - GROUND TRUTH PACK

Updated on July 19, 2021 — zip (1.8Go) — 1 downloads

OCR Datasets

As part of BnL’s AI strategy, we provide the ground truth data that falls into the public domain. The dataset includes text/image pairs based on text lines extracted from historical newspapers published before 1878. The data is classified in two font classes (antiqua & fraktur) and is generally in German, French or Luxembourgish. The ground truth has been manually corrected for an accuracy of minimum 99.95%.

More information on https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/

URL: https://data.bnl.lu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/bnl-ground-truth-newspapers-before-1878.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/5e87535b-74e1-4613-90d8-85cb17ac23cf
Type: Main file
MIME Type: None
sha1: \1e1e6bc8540e8b2956973f05df52f4eb80992de6
Created on: July 19, 2021
Modified on: July 19, 2021
Published on: July 19, 2021

Digitised Luxembourg Monographs - TEXT PACK

Updated on October 13, 2020 — zip (119.2Mo) — 5 downloads

This set contains 33477 exported chapters from 1690 to 1918 created by processing 504 monographs and 51709 pages.

URL: https://data.bnl.lu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MonographsOpenData.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/8e532412-5dbf-4c23-bd1a-3ada3648bcf2
Type: Main file
MIME Type: None
sha1: 08749ba6c2eb6149f0c7692855902bed
Created on: October 13, 2020
Modified on: October 13, 2020
Published on: October 13, 2020

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - TEXT ANALYSIS PACK - XML

Updated on November 15, 2022 — zip (1.2Go) — 1 downloads

Best for getting started with text analysis

This set contains 630709 exported articles from 1841 to 1879 (39 years of news) created by processing 24415 newspaper issues and 99957 pages. It consists of individual XML files with the full text and metadata of the articles.

URL: https://data.bnl.lu/open-data/digitization/newspapers/export02-newspapers1841-1879-xml.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/ff557ec8-3f3b-409a-a284-dd954d6a159c
Type: Main file
MIME Type: application/zip
sha1: 94ad866b976ccfebb704a8e88a5d3b4c00dc5364
Created on: March 1, 2019
Modified on: November 15, 2022
Published on: November 15, 2022

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - STARTER PACK

Updated on August 12, 2022 — zip (250.0Mo) — 2 downloads

Best for getting started & developing

This set contains 5 newspaper issues (5 days of news) and 22 pages of the newspaper D’Wäschfra (1868).

URL: https://data.bnl.lu/open-data/digitization/newspapers/set04-5days.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/3724c50f-25f2-420c-b26c-af237303700b
Type: Main file
MIME Type: None
sha1: c391d90ba4c41e6a8c04f53dd9825f3a
Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: August 12, 2022
Published on: October 10, 2018

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - SAMPLE PACK

Updated on August 12, 2022 — zip (1.0Go) — 1 downloads

Best for testing different newspapers and metadata

This set contains a sample of 11 different newspaper titles (1 issue per newspaper) between 1845 and 1877.

URL: https://data.bnl.lu/open-data/digitization/newspapers/set05-different-newspapers.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/8c00703e-ae19-4fc7-a228-65453069453a
Type: Main file
MIME Type: None
sha1: 7b7ffd668b0186763427bd86490d4f4e
Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: August 12, 2022
Published on: October 10, 2018

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Documentation ¹

Documentation on the official Open Data website of the BnL | data.bnl.lu

Updated on August 12, 2022 — website — 289 downloads

URL: https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/161740ee-e2e4-42c8-93f2-b71e6dcd5b1d
Type: Documentation
MIME Type: None
Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: August 12, 2022
Published on: October 10, 2018

Code repository ¹

BnL on GitHub

Updated on October 10, 2018 — github — 3 downloads

URL: https://github.com/natliblux
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/99eab010-26ad-4cbb-9635-f710bc742ecc
Type: Code repository
MIME Type: None
Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: October 10, 2018
Published on: October 10, 2018

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Prices of goods at the Luxembourg market in the 19th century

From Bruno Rodrigues — Updated on April 7, 2019 — csv (1.5Mo) — 3 downloads

This dataset was extracted from the L'Indépendance using OCR. It contains market prices from 1871 to 1878. There can be mistakes in the data as OCR is not 100% accurate. Use this data and interpret the results with a grain of salt. In case of doubt about a particular value, links to the original newspaper are also supplied in the source_url column.

URL: https://download.data.public.lu/resources/digitised-luxembourg-historical-newspapers-journaux-historiques-luxembourgeois-numerises/20190407-183605/market-price.csv
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/27293c42-22e5-4811-aee8-89d6f7fa9533
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MIME Type: text/csv
sha1: 12028dcc78aa0484bd6954f8fdeb4e13280109de
Created on: April 7, 2019
Modified on: April 7, 2019
Published on: April 7, 2019

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Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers | Journaux Historiques Luxembourgeois Numérisés bnl-historical-newspapers

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Chat with Luxembourgish newspapers

End Game (Game of code 2020) - Show historical events…

Shiny app to read 10 years of newspapers

named entity recognition, linked open data and trend…

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