Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Generation
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Text
Formats:
parquet
Languages:
English
Size:
10M - 100M
Tags:
ocr
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Pclanglais
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The collection was compiled by Pierre-Carl Langlais based on the [dumps](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/ocr/) made available by the Library of Congress. Each parquet file matches one of the 2618 original dump files, including their code name. It has the full text of a few thousand selected at random and a few core metadatas (edition id, date, word counts…). The metadata can be easily expanded thanks to the LOC APIs and other data services.
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While most of the collection is in English, it also covers a wider variety of European languages, especially German (600k editions) and Spanish (400k editions).
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## Uses
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The primary use of the collection is for cultural analytics on a wide scale. It has been instrumental for some major digital humanities projects like [Viral Texts](https://viraltexts.org/).
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The collection was compiled by Pierre-Carl Langlais based on the [dumps](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/ocr/) made available by the Library of Congress. Each parquet file matches one of the 2618 original dump files, including their code name. It has the full text of a few thousand selected at random and a few core metadatas (edition id, date, word counts…). The metadata can be easily expanded thanks to the LOC APIs and other data services.
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The [American Stories dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories) is a curated and enhanced version of the same resource, with significant progress in regards to text quality and documentation. It currently retains about 10-20% of the original material.
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## Language
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While most of the collection is in English, it also covers a wider variety of European languages, especially German (600k editions) and Spanish (400k editions).
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<div class='tableauPlaceholder' id='viz1707380964620' style='position: relative'><noscript><a href='#'><img alt='Chronicling America Page Counts by LanguageVisualization shows distribution of newspaper pages by language available in Chronicling America published between 1690-1963.Coverage as of July 2023 ' src='https://public.tableau.com/static/images/Ch/ChroniclingAmericaLanguageCoverageBubble/All_Lang/1_rss.png' style='border: none' /></a></noscript><object class='tableauViz' style='display:none;'><param name='host_url' value='https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F' /> <param name='embed_code_version' value='3' /> <param name='site_root' value='' /><param name='name' value='ChroniclingAmericaLanguageCoverageBubble/All_Lang' /><param name='tabs' value='no' /><param name='toolbar' value='yes' /><param name='static_image' value='https://public.tableau.com/static/images/Ch/ChroniclingAmericaLanguageCoverageBubble/All_Lang/1.png' /> <param name='animate_transition' value='yes' /><param name='display_static_image' value='yes' /><param name='display_spinner' value='yes' /><param name='display_overlay' value='yes' /><param name='display_count' value='yes' /><param name='language' value='en-US' /></object></div> <script type='text/javascript'> var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1707380964620'); var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0]; vizElement.style.width='100%';vizElement.style.height=(divElement.offsetWidth*0.75)+'px'; var scriptElement = document.createElement('script'); scriptElement.src = 'https://public.tableau.com/javascripts/api/viz_v1.js'; vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement); </script>
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## Uses
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The primary use of the collection is for cultural analytics on a wide scale. It has been instrumental for some major digital humanities projects like [Viral Texts](https://viraltexts.org/).
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