This paper describes CLARIAH-ES’s contribution to PressMint in Spain as a distributed effort across regional nodes (e.g., Catalonia, Madrid, Basque Country, Galicia, Canary Islands, Alicante), each developing manageable corpora in partnership with key repositories such as ARCA, Patrimonio Digital Complutense, Euskariana, Jable, Galiciana, and the BVMC periodicals portal. A central technical challenge is heterogeneous legacy OCR quality, motivating experiments with AI/LLM-assisted OCR renewal, normalization layers, and linguistic enrichment (e.g., NER and entity linking). This effort is situated alongside ongoing dissemination and the EOSC Mesh “historical newspapers” use-case work aimed at scalable discovery, access, and federated computation over interoperable historical press data.

This paper provides an overview of the ongoing European Language Equality(ELE) project, an 18-month action funded by the European Commission which involves 52 partners. The primary goal of ELE is to prepare the European Language Equality Programme, in the form of a strategic research, innovation and implementation agenda and a roadmap for achieving full digital language equality (DLE) in Europe by 2030.