---
task_categories:
- zero-shot-classification
- image-classification
language:
- en
tags:
- biology
- image
- animals
- species
- taxonomy
- morphology
- rare species
- endangered species
- data deficient species
pretty_name: Rare Species Dataset
---

# Dataset Card for Rare Species Dataset

## Dataset Description

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### Dataset Summary

This dataset uses information from [IUCN Redlist](https://www.iucnredlist.org/) to determine species that are rare (eg., endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild, data deficient). From this information, data (images and text) are pulled from other datasets (eg., [EOL](https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/eol/)) to generate a dataset consisting of rare species for zero-shot-classification and more refined image classification tasks.
There are approximately 25,000 species that fall into these categories, though the image availability for each species is yet to be determined.
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## Dataset Structure

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## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

This dataset was generated with the purpose of providing a test set for the [Imageomics BioCLIP model](https://huggingface.co/imageomics/bioclip) to demonstrate robustness on data with minimal training samples available.

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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### Annotations

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

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## Additional Information

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### Licensing Information

The data (images and text) contain a variety of licensing restrictions mostly within the CC family. 
Each image and text in this dataset is provided under the least restrictive terms allowed by its licensing requirements as provided to us (i.e, we impose no additional restrictions past those specified by licenses in the license file).

### Citation Information

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Please be sure to also cite the original data source(s) and all constituent parts as appropriate. 

### Contributions

The [Imageomics Institute](https://imageomics.org) is funded by the US National Science Foundation's Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Institute program under [Award #2118240](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2118240) (Imageomics: A New Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning).