Papers Past Open Data: Wairarapa Standard 1867-1887

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard for 1867-1887.

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

Wairarapa Standard 1867XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1867. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (21.7MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1868XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1868. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (20.4MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1869XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1869. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (29.2MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1870XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1870. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (40.2MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1871XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1871. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (37.6MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1872XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1872. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (37.4MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1873XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1873. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (54.6MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1874XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1874. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (57.6MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1875XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1875. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (74.1MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1876XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1876. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (79.9MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1877XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1877. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (85.6MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1878XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1878. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (90.8MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1879XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1879. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (84.6MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1880XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1880. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (79.4MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1881XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1881. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (81.7MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1882XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1882. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (91.4MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1883XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1883. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (84.5MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1884XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1884. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (96.2MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1885XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1885. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (101.1MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1886XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1886. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (92.8MB).
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Wairarapa Standard 1887XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wairarapa Standard of 1887. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (62.2MB).
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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)	1867/1887
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/wairarapa-standard