--- title: "PressMint QuickCheck — paper by Moro et al. (2026)" description: "The authors present PressMint QuickCheck, a Colab notebook that needs no installation. 4 references." authors: ["Elena Battaner Moro", "Almudena Caballos Villar", "María Cuevas Riaño", "Marina Miguez Lamanuzzi", "Dolores Romero López"] year: 2026 venue: "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers" source: "https://aclanthology.org/2026.pressmint-1.3/" doi: "10.63317/2pgz3sxyv56b" licence: "CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moro-2026-pressmint-quickcheck-operationalising-readiness-diagnostics/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moro-2026-pressmint-quickcheck-operationalising-readiness-diagnostics/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/39/) / PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora # PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora **Authors:** Elena Battaner Moro, Almudena Caballos Villar, María Cuevas Riaño, Marina Miguez Lamanuzzi and Dolores Romero López · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** [Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/pressmint/) ([Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/pressmint/2026/)) · **Publisher:** [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/2026.pressmint-1.3/) · [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/2026.pressmint-1.3.pdf) · [DOI 10.63317/2pgz3sxyv56b](https://doi.org/10.63317/2pgz3sxyv56b) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W7166550763) **Citations:** 0 citations (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14) ## Summary Digitised historical newspapers usually arrive as mixed library exports, such as PDF with embedded OCR, OCR text folders, ALTO/METS-ALTO, partial TEI or IIIF manifests. This makes it hard to judge early whether a collection is fit for the PressMint interoperable-corpus workflow. The authors present PressMint QuickCheck, a Colab notebook that needs no installation. It ingests a ZIP package or a folder of IIIF manifests and works at the level of individual issues. It runs only the checks that match the components it detects: inventory, metadata completeness (ISO 8601 dates, stable IDs, rights, provenance, BCP 47 language tags), OCR triage signals and IIIF Presentation API 3.0 validity. It outputs an HTML readiness report, a minimal CSV manifest and a JSON scorecard, with P0/P1/P2 priorities linked to remediation actions. Declared content and metadata languages are treated as core interoperability signals, given the multilingual nature of PressMint and ParlaMint. A demo on a PDF+OCR sample and an IIIF sample yields one unified manifest. The paper reports no quantitative evaluation. Its value lies in making onboarding transparent and comparable for small DH teams and libraries. ## Key points - Three artefacts are produced: an HTML readiness report, a minimal normalised manifest (CSV, one row per issue) and a scorecard (JSON with an optional per-check CSV). The scorecard gives a suitability_score from 0 to 100 and a suitability_level from 0 to 4, where 0 means unusable and 4 means "PressMint-ready". Weights are tentative v1 and configurable. - Priorities follow the most severe flag. P0 means no usable text or structure, which blocks onboarding. P1 covers fixable gaps such as a missing language declaration, an unparseable date, missing rights or provenance, empty or low-signal OCR, or invalid IIIF. P2 covers non-blocking issues, e.g. P2:generated_id. - Language fields (content_language, metadata_language, language_present) are always reported. If no language declaration is present, a P1 flag is raised. - Version 2.0 adds P2:fields_from_defaults, so that values filled in from notebook defaults are no longer mistaken for metadata declared by the provider. This gap was found during external testing. - The scope is deliberately limited: no TEI conversion, article segmentation or automatic language identification, and no measurement of OCR accuracy. The notebook is available in English and Spanish at github.com/ebattanermoro/PressMint-Quickcheck. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.* ## Institutions - [Universidad Complutense de Madrid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-complutense-de-madrid/) — University, Madrid, Spain · 9 works · 63 citations - [Universidad Rey Juan Carlos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-rey-juan-carlos/) — University, Madrid, Spain · 4 works · 4 citations 📚 Shelves (5): [🖥️ Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · 16,667 works · [🎭 Arts and Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · 16,039 works · [🗄️ Information Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · 1,437 works · [📚 Literature and Literary Theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) · 519 works · [🎭 Conservation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/conservation/) · 7 works ## Cite Cite as: Elena Battaner Moro, Almudena Caballos Villar, María Cuevas Riaño, Marina Miguez Lamanuzzi and Dolores Romero López. 2026. PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers. The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{moro2026pressmint, title = {{PressMint QuickCheck: Operationalising Readiness Diagnostics for Interoperable Historical Newspaper Corpora}}, author = {Elena Battaner Moro, Almudena Caballos Villar, María Cuevas Riaño, Marina Miguez Lamanuzzi and Dolores Romero López}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.63317/2pgz3sxyv56b}, url = {https://doi.org/10.63317/2pgz3sxyv56b} } ``` - [← previous Preserving Civilisation Memory: A Digital Humanities Approach to the Ramayan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiwari-2026-preserving-civilisation-memory-digital-humanities/) - [next → PretrainRL: Alleviating Factuality Hallucination of Large Language Models at the Beginning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-pretrainrl-alleviating-factuality-hallucination-large/) - [↑ back to papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/39/) ## References 4 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. CLARIN ERIC. (n.d.). PressMint. [https://www.clarin.eu/pressmint](https://www.clarin.eu/pressmint) (accessed 25 March 2026). [↗](https://www.clarin.eu/pressmint) 2. Ehrmann, M., Romanello, M., Clematide, S., Strobel, P. B., and Barman, R. (2020). Language Resources for Historical Newspapers: the Impresso Collection. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), pp. 958-968. Marseille, France. European Language Resources… [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Ehrmann%2C+M%2E%2C+Romanello%2C+M%2E%2C+Clematide%2C+S%2E%2C+Strobel%2C+P%2E+B%2E%2C+and+Barman%2C+R%2E+%282020%29%2E+Language+Resources+for+Historical+Newspapers%3A+the+Impresso+Collection%2E+In+Proceedings+of+the+12th+Conference+on+Langua) 3. IIIF Consortium. (n.d.). IIIF Presentation API 3.0. [https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/](https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/) (accessed 25 March 2026). [↗](https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/) 4. Neudecker, C. and Antonacopoulos, A. 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