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The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: 16M Historic Newspaper Pages
- jhymn 6y agoRecenty my browser's home page is a real-time stream of randomly clipped newspaper articles going back to the 1600s: https://newspaperarchive.com/clippings/ https://newspaperarchive.com/clippings/ It's fun to see what people are digging into the newspaper archives for, and to speculate how it may relate to present or future events. Note: paid subscribers see more (which I am for family history purposes).
- legatusmundi 6y agoSome background: https://www.infodocket.com/2020/05/07/machine-learning-the-library-of-congress-newspaper-navigator-dataset-is-now-available-over-16-million-pages-from-chronicling-america-processed/ https://www.infodocket.com/2020/05/07/machine-learning-the-l... The dataset itself: https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/ https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
- chris_wot 6y agoYou should also try Trove's newspaper archives. See https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
- msla 6y agoAnd the Library of Congress' own newspaper archives: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
- aaronbrethorst 6y agoThere's some fascinating stuff in there, like this from the Bamberg Herald in November 1918: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063790/1918-11-21/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1918&index=0&rows=20&words=Influenza&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1920&proxtext=influenza&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063790/1918-11-2...
- xtiansimon 6y agoWonder what the print run was on that day, lol
- mlb_hn 6y agoThat's the dataset used in the paper.