Attributions

— WITH GRATITUDE —

Built on the Commons

The Old Gazette stands on the shoulders of an enormous amount of freely shared work — open-source software written by volunteers, and open archives opened to the public. Without the people and institutions below, this project could not exist. Our thanks to all of them.

Historical Data & Archives

Library of Congress — Chronicling AmericaThe digitized 1800s–1920s newspaper archive every article is drawn fromPublic Domain
OpenStreetMapGeocoding & walkable-road data — © OpenStreetMap contributorsODbL
National Register of Historic Places (NPS)Historical landmark gazetteerPublic Domain
WikidataLandmark coordinates & metadataCC0

Machine Learning & Data Processing

Ultralytics YOLONewspaper page layout & article detectionAGPL-3.0
sentence-transformersStory-thread & continuation embeddingsApache-2.0
spaCyNamed-entity extractionMIT
datasketchDuplicate & syndication detection (MinHash)MIT
NumPyNumerical computingBSD
PillowImage processingHPND

Local AI Models & Runtime

olmOCRTranscribes scanned newspaper clippings — Allen Institute for AIApache-2.0
GemmaArticle scoring & classification — GoogleOpen Weights
OllamaRuns the local models on our own hardwareMIT

Backend & API

FastAPIWeb frameworkMIT
UvicornASGI serverBSD
PydanticData validationMIT
SQLite & aiosqliteDatabase enginePublic Domain / BSD
HTTPXAsync HTTP clientBSD
SlowAPIRate limitingMIT

Pipeline Tooling & Dashboard

StreamlitManagement dashboardApache-2.0
Folium & Leaflet.jsInteractive mapsMIT / BSD
PlotlyCharts & visualizationMIT
pandasData wranglingBSD
openpyxlSpreadsheet parsingMIT
lxmlHTML parsingBSD
geopyGeocoding clientMIT
ddgs (DuckDuckGo)Web search for historical landmark addressesMIT

Mobile App

React & React NativeApplication frameworkMIT
ExpoBuild & runtime platformMIT
React NavigationScreen navigationMIT
react-native-mapsMap componentMIT
react-native-reanimated & friendsAnimation & UI primitivesMIT
react-native-view-shotImage capture for sharingMIT
SentryError monitoringMIT

Typography

Playfair DisplayHeadlinesOFL
IM Fell EnglishBody textOFL
Courier PrimeMetadata & labelsOFL
UnifrakturMaguntiaBlackletter mastheadsOFL

Website

WordPressContent managementGPL-2.0
WP-CLISite toolingMIT