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Add dataset: Berlin_State_Library_extracted_illustrations

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
data

Research direction

Start with the Zenodo dataset URL and verify the Berlin State Library illustration dataset details against the issue. Add the dataset using the repository's existing dataset contribution structure, preserving its image modality, open licence, access URL, and size; done means the dataset is listed accurately.

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Description

dataset
A URL for this dataset

https://zenodo.org/record/2602431

Dataset description

The dataset consists of various illustrations extracted from 26,233 historical books and other media offered in the Berlin State Library's Digitized Collections. The media objects are older than 1920.

Version 1.0 contains of 594,890 extracted illustrations in total.

The extraction of illustrations is driven by the coordinates given by the ABBYY FineReader OCR engine (in ALTO XML) . The extracted illustrations have not been resized but compressed and saved in JPEG format.

The extracts for each media object are stored in separated sub-folders and tar files named after the PPN (a unique ID used in the library) to facilitate further processing. Additional metadata can be obtained with help of the PPN as described here: https://github.com/elektrobohemian/StabiHacks/blob/master/ppn-howto.md .

Dataset modality

Image

Dataset licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Other licence

No response

How can you access this data

As a download from a repository/website

size of dataset

10GB

Confirm the dataset has an open licence
  • To the best of my knowledge, this dataset is accessible via an open licence
Contact details for data custodian

No response

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91
Forks
8
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No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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