k8mpass-fraktur-series/fraktur-baltic-corpus

Fraktur Baltic Corpus

Fraktur Baltic Corpus is a multilingual dataset based on historical German-language books printed in the Russian Empire during the 18th–19th centuries, primarily in Fraktur typeface.

Each entry in the dataset contains:

• —Raw OCR text from historical Fraktur sources
• —Normalized German version
• —Translations into seven languages: English, Russian, Estonian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, and Modern German

Volume 1: Hansen, Geschichte der Stadt Narva (1858)

This initial release includes the "Einleitung" (introduction) section of the 1858 book Geschichte der Stadt Narva by H. J. Hansen, a Danish-German ethnographer. The dataset includes:

• —87 aligned records
• —OCR text (Fraktur)
• —Normalized German
• —7 parallel translations

Format

Each .jsonl and .csv entry includes the following fields:

• —original_fraktur
• —normalized_german
• —translation_en
• —translation_ru
• —translation_et
• —translation_sv
• —translation_fi
• —translation_da

License

CC BY-SA 4.0 You are free to use, adapt, and redistribute with proper attribution.

Author & Contact

This dataset is created by k8mpass, an independent open-source initiative based in Estonia. Feel free to cite, fork, or contact for collaborations.

📥 Download instructions

• —Use dataset.csv to explore or visualize the corpus.
• —To use the full dataset for machine learning training:
• —Download `data.zip`
• —Unzip it to extract the file data.jsonl
• —Load data.jsonl using your preferred JSONL reader or training pipeline
• —File is encoded in UTF-8 and follows JSON Lines format (one JSON object per line).