Esperanto Newspaper Excerpts

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Data Set created: April 2024

Data Set updated: 25 April 2024

Content

Images, text and metadata for a collection of historical newspaper excerpts (from the period 1898–1915), containing information about the Esperanto language and community.

Data Provenance and Quality

The data set contains recently scanned images (at ONB

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Austria’s largest library and a cultural and research institution located in Vienna; founded in the 14th century...

's Department of Digitization) of high quality, manually created metadata for each article (in preparation for the digitization process), and text files created in the project Esperanto Newspaper Excerpts. The generated text is of varying quality, as there is a wide variety of different scripts, layouts and languages in the data set.

Historical Background

Esperanto is a language designed to enable easy communication between people of different countries and cultures. It was launched in 1887 by Dr. Ludwik L. Zamenhof under the pseudonym “Doktoro Esperanto”, which literally means “Doctor Hoper”. The goal of Esperanto was to create an international auxiliary language that everyone on Earth could speak, facilitating global communication and understanding. With its regular grammar and structure, Esperanto has been used as a universal second language for international communication. The “Hachette Collection” consists of 17,204 articles taken from newspapers published in many European countries in the period from 1898 until 1915, which are held at the Departmenf of Planned Languages. The articles themselves deal with Esperanto-themed events and persons, e.g., reports from the Esperanto World Congress and as such serve as an excellent and unique opportunity to study the history of the Esperanto movement in Europe in the early 20^th century.

Maintenance

This data set can be updated irregularly.

Reuse

Information on Rights and Reuse

License

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Cite as

ONB Labs. “Data Set Esperanto Newspaper Excerpts.” ONB Labs. Apr 25, 2024. Accessed on Aug 21, 2025, https://labs.onb.ac.at/en/datasets/esperanto-excerpts/.

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Documents in the Data Set

Data Set Items

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Data

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Sample

15 selected articles from the collection with metadata records
26 .jpg, .xml (ALTO), .txt files
Readme explanation of properties used
.zip archive (72.7 MB)

Metadata Records

Bibliographic metadata for all articles
Readme explanation of properties used
.csv table (3.4 MB) and .xlsx file (1.1 MB)

IIIF Collection

IIIF collection with URLs to all 22.247 images
17.204 articles with metadata
.json file format

Code

Repository with Python source code used in the project
Jupyter Notebooks
Readme file with requirements and installation instructions

Use Cases

Areas of Application Related to the Data Set

Possible Uses

Since the contents of the data set are highly multilingual, the images could be used to train a multilingual CV

Computer Vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) focused on enabling computers to interpret and understand visual information from the wor...

-/-model. Furthermore, since the data set contains metadata to text documents, it could be used to gain an exemplary understanding of the distribution of languages over time, and to therefore gain an insight into certain characteristics that might be present in the entire collection. The metadata could also be analyzed to get an overview of the places, where the text documents mostly originate from (via the data point 'countryCodes'). It might also be possible to visualize a network of people and/or publishers (via the data point 'persons' and/or 'publishers').

Examples

CV, OCR and Full-Text Search

Topic on CLARIAH-AT Project

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