Datasets:
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language: []
language_creators:
- expert-generated
license: other
multilinguality: []
pretty_name: National Library of Scotland Chapbook Illustrations
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets: []
tags:
- LAM
task_categories:
- image-classification
- object-detection
task_ids:
- multi-class-image-classification
Dataset Card for National Library of Scotland Chapbook Illustrations
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: https://data.nls.uk/data/digitised-collections/chapbooks-printed-in-scotland/
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Dataset Summary
This dataset comprises of images from digitised chapbooks printed in Scotland and held by the National Library of Scotland.
"Chapbooks were staple everyday reading material from the end of the 17th to the later 19th century. They were usually printed on a single sheet and then folded into books of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, and they were often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Their subjects range from news courtship, humour, occupations, fairy tales, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, historical figures, transvestites and freemasonry to religion and, of course, poetry. It has been estimated that around two thirds of chapbooks contain songs and poems, often under the title garlands." -Source
This dataset contains additional annotations for these chapbooks created by Giles Bergel and Abhishek Dutta. These annotations provide bounding annotations for illustrations contained on some of the Chapbook pages.
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Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
object-detection: the dataset contains bounding boxes for images contained in the Chapbooksimage-classification: a configuration for this dataset provides a classification label indicating if a page contains an illustration or not.
The performance on the object-detection task reported in the paper Visual Analysis of Chapbooks Printed in Scotland is as follows:
| IOU threshold | Precision | Recall |
|---|---|---|
| 0.50 | 0.993 | 0.911 |
| 0.75 | 0.987 | 0.905 |
| 0.95 | 0.973 | 0.892 |
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Languages
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Dataset Structure
Data Instances
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Data Fields
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Data Splits
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Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
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Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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Who are the source language producers?
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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
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Additional Information
Dataset Curators
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Licensing Information
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Citation Information
@inproceedings{10.1145/3476887.3476893,
author = {Dutta, Abhishek and Bergel, Giles and Zisserman, Andrew},
title = {Visual Analysis of Chapbooks Printed in Scotland},
year = {2021},
isbn = {9781450386906},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3476887.3476893},
doi = {10.1145/3476887.3476893},
abstract = {Chapbooks were short, cheap printed booklets produced in large quantities in Scotland, England, Ireland, North America and much of Europe between roughly the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. A form of popular literature containing songs, stories, poems, games, riddles, religious writings and other content designed to appeal to a wide readership, they were frequently illustrated, particularly on their title-pages. This paper describes the visual analysis of such chapbook illustrations. We automatically extract all the illustrations contained in the National Library of Scotland Chapbooks Printed in Scotland dataset, and create a visual search engine to search this dataset using full or part-illustrations as queries. We also cluster these illustrations based on their visual content, and provide keyword-based search of the metadata associated with each publication. The visual search; clustering of illustrations based on visual content; and metadata search features enable researchers to forensically analyse the chapbooks dataset and to discover unnoticed relationships between its elements. We release all annotations and software tools described in this paper to enable reproduction of the results presented and to allow extension of the methodology described to datasets of a similar nature.},
booktitle = {The 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing},
pages = {67–72},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {illustration detection, chapbooks, image search, visual grouping, printing, digital scholarship, illustration dataset},
location = {Lausanne, Switzerland},
series = {HIP '21}
}
Contributions
Thanks to @github-username for adding this dataset.