Papers Past Open Data: Western Star 1873-1898

This dataset consists of the METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star for 1873-1898.

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

Western Star 1873XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1873. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (3.4MB).
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Western Star 1874XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1874. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (39.6MB).
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Western Star 1875XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1875. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (40.9MB).
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Western Star 1876XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1876. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (42.6MB).
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Western Star 1877XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1877. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (40.4MB).
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Western Star 1878XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1878. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (46.1MB).
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Western Star 1879XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1879. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (48.6MB).
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Western Star 1880XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1880. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (57MB).
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Western Star 1881XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1881. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (75.7MB).
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Western Star 1882XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1882. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (66.5MB).
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Western Star 1883XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1883. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (76.8MB).
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Western Star 1884XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1884. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (81.4MB).
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Western Star 1885XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1885. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (87.4MB).
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Western Star 1886XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1886. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (86.6MB).
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Western Star 1887XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1887. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (90.3MB).
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Western Star 1888XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1888. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (89.1MB).
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Western Star 1889XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1889. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (85MB).
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Western Star 1890XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1890. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (73.1MB).
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Western Star 1891XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1891. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (69.8MB).
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Western Star 1892XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1892. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (61.3MB).
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Western Star 1893XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1893. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (61.2MB).
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Western Star 1894XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1894. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (80.7MB).
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Western Star 1895XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1895. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (59.7MB).
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Western Star 1896XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1896. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (59.1MB).
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Western Star 1897XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1897. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (91.6MB).
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Western Star 1898XML
METS/ALTO XML files for the Western Star of 1898. These have been compressed into a TAR Gzip archive (86.2MB).
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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)	1873/1898
Spatial
Source Identifier	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/western-star