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Reposted by Jessica Chapel

IDI @institutional.org · 02/09/2026

When a newspaper becomes a wall of OCR text, columns collapse, headlines mix with ads, and reading order disappears. The Institutional Data Initiative (@institutional.org) and Boston Public Library (@bpl.boston.gov) built a pipeline and dataset to make historical newspapers more accessible.🧵

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Making 1.47 Million Historical Newspaper Pages Available as High-Quality, Granular Data | IDI

The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open dataset and processing pipeline that make historical newspapers more accessible for resear...

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