Free Press Houston

Data

Each dataset below is generated on request from the same records the archive's pages are built from. There is no separate export corpus: a row exists because the record exists. Every dataset states its coverage, how its rows are made and the date of the data it describes, which is also its version.

Descriptive metadata the archive created is released under CC0. Rights in the underlying articles, photographs and artwork remain with their authors; the rows describe those works and do not license them.

Datasets
10
Formats
CSV, JSON
Fixity
SHA-256, 982 held files
Record JSON
Append .json to any article, issue, contributor, collection or object address
Article metadata census

One row per public canonical article record recovered from Free Press Houston's print issues and website, with attribution, reconciled publication date, issue, section and subject fields.

4,142 rows · as of 2026-08-30

Contributor and byline census

One row per contributor record: printed name, roles and span as the archive states them, counts of recovered work, and verified external identity links where the archive holds them.

222 rows · as of 2026-08-30

Issue census

One row per monthly issue slot in the paper's run, stating whether an object is held, what kind of object it is, its page count and file properties where recorded.

192 rows · as of 2026-08-30

Masthead and staff-box census

One row per name per role per transcribed staff box: who the paper listed, in what capacity, in which issue and on which page.

307 rows · as of 2026-08-30

Artwork and illustration credits

One row per artwork, illustration or photograph credit the archive has read from a recovered article and attributed to a contributor record, plus the credits it could not resolve.

141 rows · as of 2026-08-30

Event edition records

One row per published edition of the events the paper produced or presented — Westheimer Block Party, Free Press Summer Fest, Day for Night and others — with dates, venue and the identifiers of the sources that establish each.

19 rows · as of 2026-08-30

Publication-date reconciliation

For every public article whose surviving source stated a date, the stated date beside the date the archive emits, and the basis for the difference where there is one.

4,100 rows · as of 2026-08-30

Former-domain observation ledger

Dated observations of how the paper's former domain currently presents historical records, set against the archive's evidenced date for the same record.

5 rows · as of 2026-09-04

File fixity (SHA-256)

SHA-256 checksums and byte lengths for the binaries held in the archive's repository, keyed by their public address.

982 rows · as of 2026-09-04

Corrections and revisions log

Every public correction to an archive record: the date, the record, what changed and why.

11 rows · as of 2026-09-04

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