2025/09/02 by Johan Heinsen, Heinsen, Johan, Camilla Bøgeskov +1
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Computational and Text Analysis Methods #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Authorship Attribution and Profiling
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.02356
This Data Descriptor introduces the dataset Enevaeldens Nyheder Online (News during Absolutism Online). The Enevaeldens Nyheder Online (ENO) dataset provides a reconstruction of the contents of major newspapers in Denmark and Norway during the period of Absolutism (1660-1849). The dataset contains approx. 474 million words, created using neural networks designed to process digitised microfilm versions of Danish newspapers as well as a smaller selection of Norwegian publications that were all hitherto illegible for computers. The contributions details this process and its results, including a way to derive standalone texts from the editions, and the accompanying BERT-model trained on a beta-version of the dataset.