Dataset Card: Encyclopaedia Britannica Illustrated

• Homepage: https://data.nls.uk/data/digitised-collections/encyclopaedia-britannica/

Dataset Summary

A binary image classification dataset containing 2,573 images from the National Library of Scotland's Encyclopaedia Britannica collection (1768-1860). Each image is labeled as either "illustrated" or "not-illustrated". The dataset was created for experimenting with historical document image classification.

Dataset Structure

• Total size: 2,573 images
• Single train split
• Features:
  • image: Page scans from Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • label: Binary classification (illustrated/not-illustrated)
  • id: String identifier for each page
  • meta: Additional metadata including volume and edition information

Source Data

• Source: National Library of Scotland's Encyclopaedia Britannica digital collection
• Years covered: 1768-1860
• Original format: Digitized page scans

Labels

• Binary classification:
  • 0: not-illustrated
  • 1: illustrated

License

CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Citation

@dataset{nls_britannica_2019,
  author = {National Library of Scotland},
  title = {Encyclopaedia Britannica},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {National Library of Scotland},
  doi = {10.34812/cg4r-dn40}
}