Papers Past Open Data: Wellington Independent 1845-1874

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent for 1845-1874.

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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Wellington Independent 1845XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1845. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (15MB).
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Wellington Independent 1846XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1846. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (28.8MB).
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Wellington Independent 1847XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1847. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (34.8MB).
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Wellington Independent 1848XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1848. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (33.1MB).
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Wellington Independent 1849XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1849. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (36.7MB).
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Wellington Independent 1850XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1850. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (43.7MB).
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Wellington Independent 1851XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1851. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (48.9MB).
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Wellington Independent 1852XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1852. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (54.5MB).
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Wellington Independent 1853XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1853. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (57.6MB).
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Wellington Independent 1854XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1854. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (63.2MB).
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Wellington Independent 1855XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1855. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (9.2MB).
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Wellington Independent 1857XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1857. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (56.8MB).
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Wellington Independent 1858XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1858. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (90.2MB).
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Wellington Independent 1859XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1859. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (91.9MB).
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Wellington Independent 1860XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1860. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (94.3MB).
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Wellington Independent 1861XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1861. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (99.6MB).
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Wellington Independent 1862XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1862. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (104.2MB).
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Wellington Independent 1863XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1863. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (119.9MB).
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Wellington Independent 1864XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1864. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (119.5MB).
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Wellington Independent 1865XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1865. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (157MB).
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Wellington Independent 1866XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1866. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (172.6MB).
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Wellington Independent 1867XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1867. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (162.2MB).
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Wellington Independent 1868XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1868. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (163.8MB).
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Wellington Independent 1869XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1869. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (161.8MB).
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Wellington Independent 1870XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1870. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (163.9MB).
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Wellington Independent 1871XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1871. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (211.7MB).
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Wellington Independent 1872XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1872. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (214.6MB).
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Wellington Independent 1873XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1873. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (214.8MB).
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Wellington Independent 1874XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Wellington Independent of 1874. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (92.5MB).
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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)	1845/1874
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/wellington-independent