PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora

Elena Battaner Moro, Almudena Caballos Villar, María Cuevas Riaño, Marina Miguez Lamanuzzi, Dolores Romero López


Abstract
PressMint QuickCheck is a lightweight, reproducible readiness diagnostic for historical newspaper collections. Given a candidate dataset (ZIP export or IIIF manifests), it detects which components are present, identifies interoperability-critical metadata gaps, and applies lightweight OCR sanity checks. It produces three standardised artefacts: a human-readable readiness report, a minimal normalised manifest (CSV), and a tentative v1 scorecard (suitability_score 0-4) for prioritisation across collections. The workflow is delivered as a Colab-first notebook (no installation required). A key design decision treats content_language and metadata_language declarations as first-class interoperability signals, reflecting the multilingual scope of PressMint and ParlaMint corpora projects.
Anthology ID:
2026.pressmint-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Petya Osenova, Tanja Wissik
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PressMint | WS
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
11–15
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-pressmint-03
DOI:
10.63317/2pgz3sxyv56b
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Cite (ACL):
Elena Battaner Moro, Almudena Caballos Villar, María Cuevas Riaño, Marina Miguez Lamanuzzi, and Dolores Romero López. 2026. PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers, pages 11–15, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora (Battaner Moro et al., PressMint 2026)
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