Papers Past Open Data: Otago Witness 1851-1899

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness for 1851-1899.

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/)

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Otago Witness 1851XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1851. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (10.7MB).
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Otago Witness 1852XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1852. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (17.9MB).
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Otago Witness 1853XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1853. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (20.7MB).
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Otago Witness 1854XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1854. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (15.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1855XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1855. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (15.5MB).
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Otago Witness 1856XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1856. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (22.1MB).
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Otago Witness 1857XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1857. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (34.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1858XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1858. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (37MB).
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Otago Witness 1859XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1859. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (47MB).
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Otago Witness 1860XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1860. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (70.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1861XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1861. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (78.7MB).
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Otago Witness 1862XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1862. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (97.5MB).
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Otago Witness 1863XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1863. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (101.7MB).
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Otago Witness 1864XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1864. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (123.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1865XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1865. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (101.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1866XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1866. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (92.5MB).
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Otago Witness 1867XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1867. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (89.2MB).
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Otago Witness 1868XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1868. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (91.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1869XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1869. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (108.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1870XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1870. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (113.7MB).
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Otago Witness 1871XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1871. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (107.3MB).
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Otago Witness 1872XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1872. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (108.7MB).
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Otago Witness 1873XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1873. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (124.8MB).
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Otago Witness 1874XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1874. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (147.3MB).
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Otago Witness 1875XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1875. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (161.1MB).
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Otago Witness 1876XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1876. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (164.6MB).
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Otago Witness 1877XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1877. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (164.2MB).
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Otago Witness 1878XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1878. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (163.8MB).
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Otago Witness 1879XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1879. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (188.6MB).
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Otago Witness 1880XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1880. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (202MB).
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Otago Witness 1881XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1881. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (224.5MB).
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Otago Witness 1882XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1882. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (233MB).
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Otago Witness 1883XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1883. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (236.6MB).
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Otago Witness 1884XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1884. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (235.8MB).
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Otago Witness 1885XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1885. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (232.6MB).
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Otago Witness 1886XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1886. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (250.9MB).
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Otago Witness 1887XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1887. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (272.2MB).
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Otago Witness 1888XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1888. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (280.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1889XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1889. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (300.8MB).
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Otago Witness 1890XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1890. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (306.9MB).
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Otago Witness 1891XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1891. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (301.3MB).
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Otago Witness 1892XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1892. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (326.1MB).
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Otago Witness 1893XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1893. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (353.7MB).
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Otago Witness 1894XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1894. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (357.6MB).
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Otago Witness 1895XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1895. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (359.4MB).
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Otago Witness 1896XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1896. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (386.8MB).
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Otago Witness 1897XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1897. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (399.5MB).
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Otago Witness 1898XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1898. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (414MB).
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Otago Witness 1899XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Otago Witness of 1899. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (416.4MB).
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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)	1851/1899
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/otago-witness