Dataset · Text retrieval
LOC-Chronicling-America
by Tim Condello Tim-Pinecone/LOC-Chronicling-America
Chronicling America (US Library of Congress) - Parquet Dataset A high-performance, columnar Apache Parquet dataset containing digitized, OCR-extracted historical American newspapers from the US Library of Congress Chronicling America / National Digital…
Dataset Card
Chronicling America (US Library of Congress) - Parquet Dataset A high-performance, columnar Apache Parquet dataset containing digitized, OCR-extracted historical American newspapers from the US Library of Congress Chronicling America / National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Produced by streaming and transmuting massive Library of Congress preservation archives (.tar.bz2, METS/MODS, and ALTO XML) into compact, issue-level Parquet shards partitioned by state, newspaper
Excerpt from the card by Tim Condello, licensed cc0-1.0.
Details
- Repository
- Tim-Pinecone/LOC-Chronicling-America
- Publisher
- Tim Condello
- Task category
- Text retrieval
- Tags
- history, historical-newspapers, chronicling-america
- Size category
- 10M<n<100M
- Languages
- en
- Revision
- a14c2c7d016463e4c50133d24d0f4beec1118a63
- Last updated
- 2026-09-26
License and Download
- License
- cc0-1.0
- Access
- No access gate
Released by Tim Condello through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.