PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
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 firstclass interoperability signals, reflecting the multilingual scope of PressMint and ParlaMint corpora projects
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166550763