Software & Data

The Avisblatt project makes data from Switzerland’s first advertising journal available under a Creative Commons license and publishes open source software to facilitate analysis and reproduce analysis of these data.

Data: Machine Friendly, OCR’d Ad Level Text Data

  • GitHub: https://github.com/avisblatt/avisdata
  • Zenodo: DOI

Software:

  • the avisblatt R package Read & Process Data from Printed Markets - The Basel Avisblatt (1729-1845): https://github.com/Avisblatt/avisblatt