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