annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
language:
- ar
- da
- de
- fi
- fr
- lb
- nl
- pt
license:
- cc0-1.0
multilinguality:
- multilingual
pretty_name: BnL Historical Newspapers
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-generation
- fill-mask
task_ids:
- language-modeling
- masked-language-modeling
dataset_info:
features:
- name: id
dtype: string
- name: source
dtype: string
- name: url
dtype: string
- name: title
dtype: string
- name: ispartof
dtype: string
- name: text
dtype: string
- name: pub_date
dtype: timestamp[s]
- name: publisher
dtype: string
- name: language
dtype: string
- name: article_type
dtype:
class_label:
names:
'0': ADVERTISEMENT_SECTION
'1': BIBLIOGRAPHY
'2': CHAPTER
'3': INDEX
'4': CONTRIBUTION
'5': TABLE_OF_CONTENTS
'6': WEATHER
'7': SHIPPING
'8': SECTION
'9': ARTICLE
'10': TITLE_SECTION
'11': DEATH_NOTICE
'12': SUPPLEMENT
'13': TABLE
'14': ADVERTISEMENT
'15': CHART_DIAGRAM
'16': ILLUSTRATION
'17': ISSUE
- name: extent
dtype: int32
config_name: processed
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 1611620156
num_examples: 537558
download_size: 1224029060
dataset_size: 1611620156
Dataset Card for BnL Historical Newspapers
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/
- Repository:
- Paper:
- Leaderboard:
- Point of Contact: opendata@bnl.etat.lu
Dataset Summary
The BnL has digitised over 800.000 pages of Luxembourg newspapers. This dataset currently has one configuration covering a subset of these newspapers, which sit under the "Processed Datasets" collection. The BNL:
processed all newspapers and monographs that are in the public domain and extracted the full text and associated meta data of every single article, section, advertisement… The result is a large number of small, easy to use XML files formatted using Dublin Core.
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Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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Languages
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Dataset Structure
The dataset currently contains a single configuration.
Data Instances
An example instance from the datasets:
{'id': 'https://persist.lu/ark:/70795/wx8r4c/articles/DTL47',
'article_type': 8,
'extent': 49,
'ispartof': 'Luxemburger Wort',
'pub_date': datetime.datetime(1853, 3, 23, 0, 0),
'publisher': 'Verl. der St-Paulus-Druckerei',
'source': 'newspaper/luxwort/1853-03-23',
'text': 'Asien. Eine neue Nedcrland-Post ist angekommen mil Nachrichten aus Calcutta bis zum 5. Febr.; Vom» vay, 12. Febr. ; Nangun und HongKong, 13. Jan. Die durch die letzte Post gebrachle Nachricht, der König von Ava sei durch seinen Bruder enlhronl worden, wird bestätigt. (K. Z.) Verantwortl. Herausgeber, F. Schümann.',
'title': 'Asien.',
'url': 'http://www.eluxemburgensia.lu/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=209701#panel:pp|issue:209701|article:DTL47',
'language': 'de'
}
Data Fields
- 'id': This is a unique and persistent identifier using ARK.
- 'article_type': The type of the exported data, possible values ('ADVERTISEMENT_SECTION', 'BIBLIOGRAPHY', 'CHAPTER', 'INDEX', 'CONTRIBUTION', 'TABLE_OF_CONTENTS', 'WEATHER', 'SHIPPING', 'SECTION', 'ARTICLE', 'TITLE_SECTION', 'DEATH_NOTICE', 'SUPPLEMENT', 'TABLE', 'ADVERTISEMENT', 'CHART_DIAGRAM', 'ILLUSTRATION', 'ISSUE')
- 'extent': The number of words in the text field
- 'ispartof: The complete title of the source document e.g. “Luxemburger Wort”.
- 'pub_date': The publishing date of the document e.g “1848-12-15”
- 'publisher':The publisher of the document e.g. “Verl. der St-Paulus-Druckerei”.
- 'source': Describes the source of the document. For example dc:sourcenewspaper/luxwort/1848-12-15 means that this article comes from the newspaper “luxwort” (ID for Luxemburger Wort) issued on 15.12.1848.
- 'text': The full text of the entire article, section, advertisement etc. It includes any titles and subtitles as well. The content does not contain layout information, such as headings, paragraphs or lines.
- 'title': The main title of the article, section, advertisement, etc.
- 'url': The link to the BnLViewer on eluxemburgensia.lu to view the resource online.
- 'language': The language of the text, possible values ('ar', 'da', 'de', 'fi', 'fr', 'lb', 'nl', 'pt')
Data Splits
This dataset contains a single split train
.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
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Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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Who are the source language producers?
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Annotations
Annotation process
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Who are the annotators?
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Personal and Sensitive Information
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Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
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Discussion of Biases
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Other Known Limitations
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Additional Information
Dataset Curators
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Licensing Information
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Citation Information
@misc{bnl_newspapers,
title={Historical Newspapers},
url={https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/},
author={ Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg},
Contributions
Thanks to @davanstrien for adding this dataset.