read-letter

What problem does it solve?

Provide straightforward, id-based access to a digitised collection of WWI-era Danish family letters so researchers and applications can read, process, and analyze historical correspondence without scraping HTML pages or manually cleaning OCR output.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Single-letter retrieval via content negotiation: obtain a single letter as clean markdown including original 1910s Danish and a modern Danish translation.
• Bulk JSON access for analysis: download the full dataset for searches, NLP, sentiment tracking, and mapping sender locations.
• Enrichment support: access precomputed sentiment scores and scanned image metadata to combine textual and visual research.
• Use case: A historian fetches letters by chronological ID to trace emotional tone across 1914–1918 using the provided sentiment dataset.

Quick Start

Fetch a single letter by requesting https://jernkorset.dk/letters/42/ with the HTTP header Accept: text/markdown to receive the original and modernised Danish plus frontmatter metadata.