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

Description

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Since 2002, the BnL has been digitising a large variety of historical documents such as newspapers, monographs, manuscripts, postcards and even posters.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.

Producer

Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg

Latest update

September 17, 2025

License

Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Metadata quality

89.0%

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9 Main files ⁹

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - TEXT ANALYSIS PACK - JSONL

Updated on October 28, 2024

zip (660.9MB)

8 downloads

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URL: https://data.bnl.lu/open-data/digitization/newspapers/export05-newspapers-1841-1881-jsonl.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/753b7872-a25c-4617-a13e-fd6385aae692
sha1: bf30d523681ae0b5fc11ae1968674cbda8185112
MIME Type: application/zip

Created on: November 15, 2022
Modified on: October 28, 2024

Size: 660.9MB

Best for getting started with text analysis

This set contains 592192 exported articles from 1841 to 1881 (41 years of news) created by processing 25881 newspaper issues and 106011 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.

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - GROUND TRUTH PACK

Updated on July 19, 2021

zip (1.8GB)

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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
sha1: \1e1e6bc8540e8b2956973f05df52f4eb80992de6
MIME Type: None

Created on: July 19, 2021
Modified on: July 19, 2021

Size: 1.8GB

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/

Digitised Luxembourg Monographs - TEXT PACK

Updated on October 13, 2020

zip (119.2MB)

5 downloads

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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
sha1: 08749ba6c2eb6149f0c7692855902bed
MIME Type: None

Created on: October 13, 2020
Modified on: October 13, 2020

Size: 119.2MB

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

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - TEXT ANALYSIS PACK - XML

Updated on October 28, 2024

zip (742.9MB)

3 downloads

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URL: https://data.bnl.lu/open-data/digitization/newspapers/export04-newspapers-1841-1881-xml.zip
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/ff557ec8-3f3b-409a-a284-dd954d6a159c
sha1: ede9f7e8bdee40523b7f80bcefdc16fbfe7eae61
MIME Type: application/zip

Created on: March 1, 2019
Modified on: October 28, 2024

Size: 742.9MB

Best for getting started with text analysis

This set contains 592192 exported articles from 1841 to 1881 (41 years of news) created by processing 25881 newspaper issues and 106011 pages. It consists of individual XML files with the full text and metadata of the articles.

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - STARTER PACK

Updated on August 12, 2022

zip (250.0MB)

3 downloads

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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
sha1: c391d90ba4c41e6a8c04f53dd9825f3a
MIME Type: None

Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: August 12, 2022

Size: 250.0MB

Best for getting started & developing

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

Digitised Luxembourg Historical Newspapers - SAMPLE PACK

Updated on August 12, 2022

zip (1.0GB)

2 downloads

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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
sha1: 7b7ffd668b0186763427bd86490d4f4e
MIME Type: None

Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: August 12, 2022

Size: 1.0GB

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.

See the 9 main files

1 Documentation ¹

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

Updated on August 12, 2022

website

2 downloads

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URL: https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/161740ee-e2e4-42c8-93f2-b71e6dcd5b1d
MIME Type: None

Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: August 12, 2022

1 Code repository ¹

BnL on GitHub

Updated on September 17, 2025

github

1 downloads

URL: https://github.com/natliblux
Permalink: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/r/99eab010-26ad-4cbb-9635-f710bc742ecc
MIME Type: None

Created on: September 26, 2018
Modified on: September 17, 2025

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

Updated on April 7, 2019

csv (1.5MB)

3 downloads

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
sha1: 12028dcc78aa0484bd6954f8fdeb4e13280109de
MIME Type: text/csv

Created on: April 7, 2019
Modified on: April 7, 2019

Size: 1.5MB

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.

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September 17, 2025

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