digital-archives
CommunityHarvest historical records across major archives.
Education & Research#api integration#historical research#corpus building#oai-pmh#digital archives#metadata harvesting#ocr extraction
Authorxjtulyc
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This Skill solves the problem of manually searching and gathering historical documents scattered across different digital archive platforms.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Multi-archive access: Query and retrieve records from Europeana, Chronicling America, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, DPLA, and generic OAI-PMH providers for cross-source research.
- Bulk harvesting + corpus building: Normalize metadata into analysis-ready tables and optionally download OCR text (e.g., Chronicling America) to support large-scale historical corpus construction.
- Key security & automation: Reads archive API keys strictly from environment variables (never hardcoded) while using consistent request patterns, pagination, and output structuring.
Quick Start
Use the digital-archives skill to search Chronicling America for WWI pages, download OCR text, and export a structured corpus dataset.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
requestspandasbeautifulsoup4lxmltqdminternetarchive
Components
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