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Media Monitoring of the Past

Media Monitoring of the Past - Beyond Borders: Connecting Historical Newspapers and Radio.

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About

Hi there 👋 !

Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past is an interdisciplinary research project that uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration and study of historical media across modalities, temporal, linguistic, and national borders. The project has received two rounds of funding, from 2017-2020 and 2023-2027 (hence, there is code from both periods).

We design and develop the Impresso Web App and the upcoming Impresso Datalab (coming soon), while conducting research at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Design, and History. Find more details on the project website.

Contents

This GitHub organization hosts numerous repositories dedicated to:

  • the code behind the Web App and Datalab. While a few repositories are public, many are still private. We aim to document and release code properly as it matures and becomes ready;
  • code supporting research efforts;
  • code from student projects.

More information and highlights will be shared as we continue to make progress! In addition to the public repositories listed below, you can also check out our models on the Impresso Hugging Face organisation.

Impresso 2 release history

(to come)

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  1. named-entity-tutorial-dh2019 named-entity-tutorial-dh2019 Public

    Tutorial on NE processing for Digital Humanities - DH Utrech 2019

    Jupyter Notebook 24 4

  2. CLEF-HIPE-2020 CLEF-HIPE-2020 Public

    Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities: Shared Task on Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers at CLEF 2020.

    SCSS 21 5

  3. llm-transcript-postcorrection llm-transcript-postcorrection Public

    Benchmarking experiments on LLM-based post-correction of historical OCR, HTR, and ASR transcripts.

    Jupyter Notebook 12 1

  4. impresso-text-acquisition impresso-text-acquisition Public

    🛠️ Python library to import OCR data in various formats into the canonical JSON format defined by the Impresso project.

    Jupyter Notebook 11 2

  5. NZZ-black-letter-ground-truth NZZ-black-letter-ground-truth Public

    11 2

  6. impresso-datalab-notebooks impresso-datalab-notebooks Public

    🔬 Impresso Datalab Notebooks

    Jupyter Notebook 11 4

Repositories

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  • impresso-schemas Public

    Repository of JSON schemas used in the Impresso project.

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    Python 4 AGPL-3.0 2 9 0 Updated Sep 16, 2026
  • impresso-middle-layer Public

    Middle layer API

    impresso/impresso-middle-layer's past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 0 AGPL-3.0 1 18 2 Updated Sep 16, 2026
  • impresso-frontend Public

    🚀 The frontend application of the Impresso WebApp

    impresso/impresso-frontend's past year of commit activity
    Vue 7 AGPL-3.0 1 103 2 Updated Sep 16, 2026
  • impresso-text-acquisition Public

    🛠️ Python library to import OCR data in various formats into the canonical JSON format defined by the Impresso project.

    impresso/impresso-text-acquisition's past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 11 AGPL-3.0 2 37 (1 issue needs help) 1 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • impresso-jscommons Public

    Reusable components for impresso-frontend and impresso-middle-layer

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    TypeScript 0 AGPL-3.0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • impresso-datalab-notebooks Public

    🔬 Impresso Datalab Notebooks

    impresso/impresso-datalab-notebooks's past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 11 AGPL-3.0 4 31 1 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • impresso-essentials Public

    ⚙️ Python package highly reusable modules and functions within impresso.

    impresso/impresso-essentials's past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 0 GPL-3.0 1 8 3 Updated Sep 12, 2026
  • impresso-mallet-topics-inference-cookbook Public

    Code to do mallet topic model inference

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    Python 0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 12, 2026
  • impresso-linguistic-processing-cookbook Public

    Code for running spaCy on rebuilt impresso data.

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    Python 0 AGPL-3.0 0 2 0 Updated Sep 12, 2026
  • impresso-make-cookbook Public

    Repo for a make-based cookbook for (nlp) offline processing steps

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    Makefile 0 AGPL-3.0 1 0 0 Updated Sep 12, 2026