Papers Past Open Data: Otago Daily Times 1861-1899

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Daily Times for 1861-1899.

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

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) 1861/1899
Spatial
Source Identifier https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/otago-daily-times
Dataset metadata created 13 January 2021, last updated 15 January 2021