This repository contains automatically and manually generated metadata about historical newspapers. Besides merging related fields from the source data , the primary addition we made in this project was standardizing the identifiers for places of publication, following the Library of Congress in linking to records in (https://dbpedia.org/)[DBpedia]. We then joined these identifiers with DBpedia to include point longitude and latitude.
The basic metadata comes from the public catalogues of several newspaper digitization and aggregation projects:
- Chronicling America
- Trove
- Gale US and UK newspapers
- Europeana
- Delpher
- American Periodicals Series
Currently, the JSON and CSV files contain the following fields:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
series |
unique identifier for a newspaper series, usually derived from existing identifiers such as LCCN numbers |
title |
title of series |
lang |
common languages in the series, according to catalogue data; in JSON, an array; in CSV, a semicolon-delimited list |
publisher |
series publisher |
placeOfPublication |
listed place of publication |
coverage |
link to a https://dbpedia.org/ entry for the place of publication |
lon |
DBpedia decimal longitude |
lat |
DBpedia decimal latitude |
subcollection |
series type |