DIGGER: a dataset built on Delpher, the digital archive of historical newspapers of the National Library of the Netherlands

  • A. (Antoine) Peris (Creator)
  • Willem Jan Faber (Creator)

Dataset

Description

DIGGER is a dataset built on Delpher, the digital archive of historical newspapers of the National Library of the Netherlands, by extracting geographical information from a selection of 102 million of news items. This dataset allow to study the spatial diffusion of information on and between the Dutch cities from a corpus of 81 newspapers published in 29 different cities between 1869 and 1994.
Date made available9 Dec 2019
PublisherTU Delft - 4TU.ResearchData
Temporal coverage1869 - 1994
Date of data production2019
Geographical coverage317 cities and towns in The Netherlands (min y = 50.85, min x = 3.57, max y = 53.33, max x = 7.03). Reference system: ESPG 4326.
  • 1 Dissertation (TU Delft)

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