---
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language:
- de
- fr
- el
- et
- fi
- hr
- ji
- pl
- ru
- sr
- sv
- uk
language_creators:
- machine-generated
multilinguality:
- multilingual
pretty_name: 'Europeana Newspapers '
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
source_datasets: []
tags:
- newspapers
- lam
- OCR
task_categories:
- text-generation
task_ids:
- language-modeling
---

# Dataset Card for Dataset Name


This dataset contains historic newspapers from [Europeana](https://pro.europeana.eu/page/iiif#download). In total the collection has ~32 Billion tokens. Documentation for this dataset is a WIP. 



This dataset card aims to be a base template for new datasets. It has been generated using [this raw template](https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/blob/main/src/huggingface_hub/templates/datasetcard_template.md?plain=1).

## Dataset Details

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### Direct Use

To download the full dataset using the `Datasets` library you can do the following

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("biglam/europeana_newspapers")
```

You can also access a subset based on language or decade ranges using the following function. 

```python
from typing import List, Optional, Literal, Union
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_url, list_repo_files

LanguageOption = Literal[
    "et",
    "pl",
    "sr",
    "ru",
    "sv",
    "no_language_found",
    "ji",
    "hr",
    "el",
    "uk",
    "fr",
    "fi",
    "de",
    "multi_language",
]


def get_files_for_lang_and_years(
    languages: Union[None, List[LanguageOption]] = None,
    min_year: Optional[int] = None,
    max_year: Optional[int] = None,
):
    files = list_repo_files("biglam/europeana_newspapers", repo_type="dataset")
    parquet_files = [f for f in files if f.endswith(".parquet")]
    parquet_files_filtered_for_lang = [
        f for f in parquet_files if any(lang in f for lang in ["uk", "fr"])
    ]
    filtered_files = [
        f
        for f in parquet_files
        if (min_year is None or min_year <= int(f.split("-")[1].split(".")[0]))
        and (max_year is None or int(f.split("-")[1].split(".")[0]) <= max_year)
    ]
    return [
        hf_hub_url("biglam/europeana_newspapers", f, repo_type="dataset")
        for f in filtered_files
    ]

```

This function takes a list of language codes, and a min, max value for decades you want to include. You can can use this function to get the URLs for files you want to download from the Hub:

```python
ds = load_dataset("parquet", data_files=get_files_for_lang_and_years(['fr']), num_proc=4)
```

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