Datasets

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

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.

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.

Newspaper ngram collection

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

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.

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