CLARIAH-ES PressMint: Building Interoperable Corpora of Historical Press in Spain

Ainara Estarrona, Aritz Farwell, German Rigau, Xabier Goenaga


Abstract
This paper describes CLARIAH-ES’s contribution to PressMint in Spain as a distributed effort across regional nodes (e.g., Catalonia, Madrid, Basque Country, Galicia, Canary Islands, Alicante), each developing manageable corpora in partnership with key repositories such as ARCA, Patrimonio Digital Complutense, Euskariana, Jable, Galiciana, and the BVMC periodicals portal. A central technical challenge is heterogeneous legacy OCR quality, motivating experiments with AI/LLM-assisted OCR renewal, normalization layers, and linguistic enrichment (e.g., NER and entity linking). This effort is situated alongside ongoing dissemination and the EOSC Mesh “historical newspapers” use-case work aimed at scalable discovery, access, and federated computation over interoperable historical press data.
Anthology ID:
2026.pressmint-1.6
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
Venues:
PressMint | WS
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
27–33
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-pressmint-06
DOI:
10.63317/5pzk95q2kup3
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Cite (ACL):
Ainara Estarrona, Aritz Farwell, German Rigau, and Xabier Goenaga. 2026. CLARIAH-ES PressMint: Building Interoperable Corpora of Historical Press in Spain. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers, pages 27–33, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
CLARIAH-ES PressMint: Building Interoperable Corpora of Historical Press in Spain (Estarrona et al., PressMint 2026)
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