Papers Past Open Data: New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator 1839-1844

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator for 1839-1844.

Papers Past is a website run by the National Library of New Zealand (see https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/). It provides free fully-text searchable access to historic newspapers, periodicals and other material.

Some of the data that sits behind Papers Past has now been openly released. This consists of the data for 78 newspapers, all published before 1900. The data itself is METS/ALTO XML files, created by the automated Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. It does not contain images of the newspaper pages, but it does contain the metadata and full text of the newspaper issues. You can find out more about METS/ALTO at What is METS/ALTO? (https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/metsalto/)

Data and Resources

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator 1839XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator of 1839. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (1.3MB).
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator 1840XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator of 1840. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (12.5MB).
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator 1841XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator of 1841. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (24.6MB).
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator 1842XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator of 1842. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (37.9MB).
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator 1843XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator of 1843. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (36.9MB).
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator 1844XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator of 1844. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (17.1MB).
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Theme	Papers Past Open Data
Author	Department of Internal Affairs
Maintainer	Papers Past
Maintainer Email	Papers Past
Update frequency	Annual
Source	https://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/open-data/papers-past-metadata/papers-past-newspaper-open-data-pilot/dataset-papers-past-newspaper-open-data-pilot
Source Created	2020-08-24
Source Modified	Unknown
Language	English
Temporal (From to To)	1839/1844
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/new-zealand-gazette-and-wellington-spectator