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US-PD-Newspapers

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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ As of January 2024, the collection contains nearly 21 millions unique newspaper
 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.
-While most of the collection is in English, it also covers a wider variety of European languages, especially German and Spanish.
 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.

 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.
+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).
 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.