Dataset Card for severo/embellishments

Dataset Summary

This small dataset contains the thumbnails of the first 100 entries of Digitised Books - Images identified as Embellishments. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JPG . It has been uploaded to the Hub to reproduce the tutorial by Daniel van Strien: Using ? datasets for image search .

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

A typical row contains an image thumbnail, its filename, and the year of publication of the book it was extracted from.

An example looks as follows:

{
 'fname': '000811462_05_000205_1_The Pictorial History of England being a history of the people as well as a hi_1855.jpg',
 'year': '1855',
 'path': 'embellishments/1855/000811462_05_000205_1_The Pictorial History of England being a history of the people as well as a hi_1855.jpg',
 'img': ...
}

Data Fields

• fname : the image filename.
• year : a string with the year of publication of the book from which the image has been extracted
• path : local path to the image
• img : a thumbnail of the image with a max height and width of 224 pixels

Data Splits

The dataset only contains 100 rows, in a single 'train' split.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

This dataset was chosen by Daniel van Strien for his tutorial Using ? datasets for image search , which includes the code in Python to do it.

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

As stated on the British Library webpage:

The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900. The books cover a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The images are in .JPEG format.d BCP-47 code is en .

Who are the source data producers?

British Library, British Library Labs, Adrian Edwards (Curator), Neil Fitzgerald (Contributor ORCID)

Annotations

The dataset does not contain any additional annotations.

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

This is a toy dataset that aims at:

• validating the process described in the tutorial Using ? datasets for image search by Daniel van Strien,
• showing the dataset viewer on an image dataset.

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

The dataset was created by Sylvain Lesage at Hugging Face, to replicate the tutorial Using ? datasets for image search by Daniel van Strien.

Licensing Information

CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain