Datasets

Timelapse

View a hundred years' worth of newspapers within a minute: the KB visualized its digitized newspapers.

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Description This webpage contains information about the datasets used and code developed as part of the

Delpher demo: pandemics through time (Dutch)

Delpher demo was produced to give an idea of the possibilities of showcasing digital heritage collections.

Word embedding playground

Word embedding playground provides tools for training and fine-tuning word embedding models.

DIGGER

DIGGER contains geocoded place names for 102 million news items from the digitised newspapers from Delpher.

Historical newspapers OCR ground-truth

A dataset consisting of 2000 pages historical newspaper groundtruth, OCR and images.

CHRONReader

With CHRONReader you can search in Delpher's newspaper images using categories and keywords.

CHRONIC

The CHRONIC dataset consists of metadata for 313K classified newspaper images using computer vision techniques.

SIAMESET

The SIAMESET dataset consists of images and metadata of advertisements from two Dutch national newspapers.

SIAMESE

Tool to identify visual trends in advertisements in Dutch historical newspapers.

Newspaper ngram collection

This dataset was generated by PoliticalMashup and contains yearly counts for word ngrams for n ranging

xportal

A simple search interface on Delpher data used for testing and demonstration.

Frame generator

Tool for extracting topics, keywords and their co-occurence patterns from a Dutch corpus.

Genre classifier

The Genre classifier predicts the genre of a Dutch newspaper article, using plain text as input.

Dictionary viewer

The Dictionary viewer visualises the appearance of a word list in the newspaper corpus over time.

KBK-1M

The KBK-1M Dataset is a collection of 1,603,396 images and accompanying captions of the period 1922 – 1994

Europeana Newspapers NER

Data set for evaluation and training of NER software for historical newspapers in Dutch, French, Austrian

Ground-truth IMPACT project

Collection of 99,95% correct OCR of books, newspapers, parliamentary papers and radio bulletins meant for training

Example set

This collection consists of a small selection of our digitised publications from the years 1870-1871.

Python API

Simple API to access KB collections using Python.

Keyword generator

A command-line tool to extract significant keywords from a collection of sample texts.

ALTO Edit

ALTO Edit is a simple browser-based post correction tool for ALTO XML files.

KB Newspapers image count

Graphical overview of images in KB Newspapers.

PoliMedia

PoliMedia allows cross-media analysis of coverage of parliamentary debates in a uniform search interface.

Newspaper ngram viewer

The PoliticalMashup ngram viewer visualises the frequency of a certain phrase in the Delpher newspaper collection.

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In the KB Lab you can find experimental tools and data built for and from the digital collection of the KB, National Library of the Netherlands.