| --- |
| annotations_creators: |
| - expert-generated |
| language: [] |
| language_creators: [] |
| license: |
| - cc0-1.0 |
| multilinguality: [] |
| pretty_name: 19th Century United States Newspaper Advert images with 'illustrated' |
| or 'non illustrated' labels |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
| source_datasets: [] |
| tags: |
| - lam |
| - historic newspapers |
| task_categories: |
| - image-classification |
| task_ids: |
| - multi-class-image-classification |
| --- |
| |
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| The Dataset contains images derived from the [Newspaper Navigator](https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/), a dataset of images drawn from the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/). |
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| > [The Newspaper Navigator dataset](https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/) consists of extracted visual content for 16,358,041 historic newspaper pages in Chronicling America. The visual content was identified using an object detection model trained on annotations of World War 1-era Chronicling America pages, including annotations made by volunteers as part of the Beyond Words crowdsourcing project. source: https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/ |
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| One of these categories is 'advertisements'. This dataset contains a sample of these images with additional labels indicating if the advert is 'illustrated' or 'not illustrated'. |
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| This dataset was created for use in a [Programming Historian tutorial](http://programminghistorian.github.io/ph-submissions/lessons/computer-vision-deep-learning-pt1). The primary aim of the data was to provide a realistic example dataset for teaching computer vision for working with digitised heritage material. |
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| # Dataset Card for 19th Century United States Newspaper Advert images with 'illustrated' or 'non illustrated' labels |
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| ## Table of Contents |
| - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents) |
| - [Dataset Description](#dataset-description) |
| - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary) |
| - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards) |
| - [Languages](#languages) |
| - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure) |
| - [Data Instances](#data-instances) |
| - [Data Fields](#data-fields) |
| - [Data Splits](#data-splits) |
| - [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation) |
| - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale) |
| - [Source Data](#source-data) |
| - [Annotations](#annotations) |
| - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information) |
| - [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data) |
| - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset) |
| - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases) |
| - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations) |
| - [Additional Information](#additional-information) |
| - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators) |
| - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information) |
| - [Citation Information](#citation-information) |
| - [Contributions](#contributions) |
|
|
| ## Dataset Description |
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| - **Homepage:** |
| - **Repository:**[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5838410](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5838410) |
| - **Paper:**[https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0101](https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0101) |
| - **Leaderboard:** |
| - **Point of Contact:** |
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|
| ### Dataset Summary |
|
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| The Dataset contains images derived from the [Newspaper Navigator](news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/), a dataset of images drawn from the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/). |
|
|
| > [The Newspaper Navigator dataset](https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/) consists of extracted visual content for 16,358,041 historic newspaper pages in Chronicling America. The visual content was identified using an object detection model trained on annotations of World War 1-era Chronicling America pages, including annotations made by volunteers as part of the Beyond Words crowdsourcing project. source: https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/ |
|
|
| One of these categories is 'advertisements. This dataset contains a sample of these images with additional labels indicating if the advert is 'illustrated' or 'not illustrated'. |
|
|
| This dataset was created for use in a [Programming Historian tutorial](http://programminghistorian.github.io/ph-submissions/lessons/computer-vision-deep-learning-pt1). The primary aim of the data was to provide a realistic example dataset for teaching computer vision for working with digitised heritage material. |
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| ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards |
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| - `image-classification`: the primary purpose of this dataset is for classifying historic newspaper images identified as being 'advertisements' into 'illustrated' and 'not-illustrated' categories. |
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|
| ### Languages |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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|
| ## Dataset Structure |
|
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| ### Data Instances |
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|
| An example instance from this dataset |
|
|
| ``` python |
| {'file': 'pst_fenske_ver02_data_sn84026497_00280776129_1880042101_0834_002_6_96.jpg', |
| 'image': <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=L size=388x395 at 0x7F9A72038950>, |
| 'label': 0, |
| 'pub_date': Timestamp('1880-04-21 00:00:00'), |
| 'page_seq_num': 834, |
| 'edition_seq_num': 1, |
| 'batch': 'pst_fenske_ver02', |
| 'lccn': 'sn84026497', |
| 'box': [0.649412214756012, |
| 0.6045778393745422, |
| 0.8002520799636841, |
| 0.7152365446090698], |
| 'score': 0.9609346985816956, |
| 'ocr': "H. II. IIASLKT & SOXN, Dealers in General Merchandise In New Store Room nt HASLET'S COS ITERS, 'JTionoMtii, ln. .Tau'y 1st, 1?0.", |
| 'place_of_publication': 'Tionesta, Pa.', |
| 'geographic_coverage': "['Pennsylvania--Forest--Tionesta']", |
| 'name': 'The Forest Republican. [volume]', |
| 'publisher': 'Ed. W. Smiley', |
| 'url': 'https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/data/pst_fenske_ver02/data/sn84026497/00280776129/1880042101/0834/002_6_96.jpg', |
| 'page_url': 'https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/pst_fenske_ver02/data/sn84026497/00280776129/1880042101/0834.jp2'} |
| ``` |
| ### Data Fields |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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| ### Data Splits |
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| The dataset contains a single split. |
|
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| ## Dataset Creation |
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| ### Curation Rationale |
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| [More Information Needed] |
|
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| ### Source Data |
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| #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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| #### Who are the source language producers? |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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| ### Annotations |
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| #### Annotation process |
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| A description of the annotation process is outlined in this [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Living-with-machines/nnanno) |
| [More Information Needed] |
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| #### Who are the annotators? |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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| ### Personal and Sensitive Information |
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| [More Information Needed] |
|
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| ## Considerations for Using the Data |
|
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| ### Social Impact of Dataset |
|
|
| [More Information Needed] |
|
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| ### Discussion of Biases |
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| [More Information Needed] |
|
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| ### Other Known Limitations |
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| [More Information Needed] |
|
|
| ## Additional Information |
|
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| ### Dataset Curators |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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| ### Licensing Information |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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| ### Citation Information |
|
|
| ``` bibtex |
| @dataset{van_strien_daniel_2021_5838410, |
| author = {van Strien, Daniel}, |
| title = {{19th Century United States Newspaper Advert images |
| with 'illustrated' or 'non illustrated' labels}}, |
| month = oct, |
| year = 2021, |
| publisher = {Zenodo}, |
| version = {0.0.1}, |
| doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5838410}, |
| url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5838410}} |
| |
| ``` |
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| [More Information Needed] |
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| ### Contributions |
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| Thanks to [@davanstrien](https://github.com/davanstrien) for adding this dataset. |
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