Papers Past Open Data: Observer 1880-1899

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer for 1880-1899.

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

Observer 1880XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1880. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (12.2MB).
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Observer 1881XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1881. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (61.2MB).
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Observer 1882XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1882. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (57.7MB).
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Observer 1883XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1883. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (69.5MB).
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Observer 1885XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1885. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (59.3MB).
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Observer 1886XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1886. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (19MB).
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Observer 1887XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1887. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (19.9MB).
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Observer 1888XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1888. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (18.8MB).
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Observer 1889XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1889. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (75.4MB).
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Observer 1890XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1890. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (47.7MB).
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Observer 1891XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1891. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (43.7MB).
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Observer 1892XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1892. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (48.6MB).
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Observer 1893XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1893. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (57.4MB).
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Observer 1894XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1894. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (57.9MB).
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Observer 1895XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1895. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (60.9MB).
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Observer 1896XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1896. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (62.2MB).
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Observer 1897XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1897. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (61.4MB).
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Observer 1898XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1898. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (58.4MB).
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Observer 1899XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Observer of 1899. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (61.5MB).
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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)	1880/1899
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/observer