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Add dataset: [bnl_newspapers1841-1879]

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Description

### 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](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

- [X] To the best of my knowledge, this dataset is accessible via an open licence

### Contact details for data custodian

opendata@bnl.etat.lu

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