Papers Past Open Data: New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1844-1865

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian for 1844-1865.

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 Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1844XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1844. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (4.4MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1845XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1845. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (19MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1846XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1846. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (29.2MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1847XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1847. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (35.9MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1848XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1848. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (35.3MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1849XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1849. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (34.2MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1850XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1850. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (30.7MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1852XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1852. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (40.1MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1853XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1853. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (51.1MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1854XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1854. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (48.8MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1864XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1864. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (70.4MB).
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian 1865XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian of 1865. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (46MB).
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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)	1844/1865
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/new-zealand-spectator-and-cook-s-strait-guardian