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Towards an interoperable Hungarian historical newspaper corpus

PressMint is a CLARIN initiative that aims to build multilingual, comparable and interoperable corpora of historical newspapers. For Hungarian, the main challenge is not a lack of material but fragmentation: newspapers are distributed across several portals, with heterogeneous metadata, access paths and OCR quality. This extended abstract reports the current status of the Hungarian PressMint subcorpus, focusing on the 19th century and the early 20th century (roughly 1800–1920). We describe two project artefacts already used in practice: a structured source inventory and a validation-driven repository. We summarise source scouting across Europeana, Hungaricana, OSZK–EPA, DiFMOE and related portals, including a curated 12-title Hungaricana manual-download pilot list with explicit target coverage periods. We then outline a reproducible pipeline for acquisition, OCR, layout analysis and conversion to PressMint-compatible TEI with facsimile linkage. Finally, we specify near-term deliverables for a first Hungarian release candidate and the evaluation steps planned for OCR and layout processing.