glossAPI/greek-national-theatre-corpus

Dataset Info:

This dataset is a digital archive of Greek press coverage related to the National Theater of Greece, compiled from the institution’s official publications archive (https://www.nt-archive.gr/publications). It contains structured metadata, direct PDF references, and OCR-extracted text from newspaper and magazine articles published between 1 February 1932 and 13 October 2023, covering approximately 91 years of Greek theatrical journalism, criticism, and cultural discourse. The collection documents the public and critical reception of productions staged by the National Theatre of Greece across multiple historical periods, including reviews, interviews, features, opinion pieces, announcements, and broader theatre commentary published in the Greek press. Each entry includes bibliographic metadata about the publication, links to scanned archival PDFs, and a best-effort OCR transcription of the original article text.

Metadata Info:

Column	Type	Description
id	string	Internal publication identifier used by nt-archive.gr
entry_url	string	Canonical URL of the publication entry on nt-archive.gr
Τίτλος δημοσιεύματος	string	Title of the press article
Συντάκτης	string	Author or signature (χ.σ. indicates unsigned article)
Μέσο δημοσίευσης	string	Type of publication medium (newspaper, magazine, etc.)
Τίτλος μέσου	string	Name of the newspaper or magazine
Ημερομηνία	string	Publication date (DD/MM/YYYY)
Είδος δημοσιεύματος	string	Type of article (review, interview, feature, etc.)
Στήλη	string	Newspaper or magazine column where the article appeared
Παράσταση	string	Related theatrical production (title, run, venue)
pdf_viewer_url	string	Web viewer URL for the scanned PDF
pdf_url	string	Direct download link for the original PDF
md_text_best	string	Best-effort OCR / extracted article text in Markdown-like format

Dataset Statistics:

Tokens: 11172629

Words: 7,131,087

Dataset size:42,58mb

Usage:

This dataset can be used for research and experimentation in:

• digital humanities and theatre studies
• Greek cultural and media history
• computational linguistics and NLP for Modern Greek
• historical discourse and sentiment analysis
• topic modeling, document classification, and retrieval

License:

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Any commercial use requires prior written permission from the National Theater Archive (https://www.nt-archive.gr/search). All intellectual property rights in the underlying journal articles remain with the National Theater Archive and the original authors of each contribution. The dataset is OCR-derived from the foundation's publicly accessible PDF archive and is provided for non-commercial research, scholarship, and educational use.

Contact:

For feedback contact: glossapi.team@eellak.gr