Media Monitoring of the Past — Beyond Borders

Leveraging an unprecedented corpus of newspaper and radio archives, Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past is an interdisciplinary research project that uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration, and study of historical media across modalities, time, languages, and national borders.

Announcements

Impresso Seminar 2025: Latest Developments in Press History Research

We are pleased to share the program for the upcoming Impresso Seminar 2025.

Blog posts


Keen to stay up to date with initiatives in the field of computational media history, the Impresso project is organizing a short series of conferences this fall, inviting colleagues to present their current research in order to gain inspiration, share ideas, and build bridges between our ongoing efforts.

Over the past months we have been busy preparing this major release which includes the Impresso Datalab for programmatic access to our corpus and models, the integration of new newspaper titles from the National Library of France and our Swiss partners, and the roll-out of a completely revised data access management system which paves the way for future corpus expansions.