anna-bozhenko/artworks

Combined Louvre and Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) Collection Dataset

Dataset Summary

This dataset merges artwork information from two prominent museum collections: the Musée du Louvre and The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). It combines data from the Louvre Paper and Canvas Collection and the AIC Dataset 0.2 datasets.

Due to differences in the original datasets' schemas, a decision was made to focus on common fields and create a non-atomic full_info field containing museum-specific characteristics for each artwork. Museum identification fields have also been added to distinguish the origin of each artwork.

This combined dataset allows for comparative analysis of artwork metadata across these two significant institutions.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

This dataset can be utilized for various tasks, including:

• —Cross-Museum Data Analysis: Comparing and contrasting artwork metadata between the Louvre and AIC collections.
• —Museum Identification: Developing models to predict the museum of origin based on artwork features.
• —Combined Collection Search: Building search systems that can query artworks across both collections.
• —Natural Language Processing (NLP): Analyzing the museum-specific full_info fields.

Languages

The primary language of the text fields within this dataset is English, as the AIC dataset is in English, and some fields in the Louvre dataset were translated. However, users should be aware that the content within the full_info field for Louvre artworks may retain some original French terms or context.

Dataset Structure

Each entry in the dataset represents a single artwork from either the Louvre or the AIC. The dataset includes the following common fields and museum-specific information:

{
  "id": "unique_artwork_id within the museum",
  "url": "artwork_url",
  "image_url": "url_to_artwork_image",
  "title": "artwork_title",
  "artist": "artwork_artist",
  "date_start": "start_year_of_creation",
  "date_end": "end_year_of_creation",
  "years of creation": "date_start-date_end",
  "full_info": "museum_specific_artwork_information",
  "museum_id": "0 or 1",
  "museum": "Musée du Louvre or The Art Institute of Chicago",
  "museum_region": "Paris, France or Chicago, USA",
  "museum_country": "France or USA"
}

Data Fields

• —id: string - A unique identifier for the artwork.
• —url: string - The URL of the artwork's webpage on the respective museum's website.
• —image_url: string - The URL of the artwork's image.
• —title: string - The title of the artwork.
• —artist: string - The artist of the artwork.
• —date_start: int - The starting year of the artwork's creation.
• —date_end: int - The ending year of the artwork's creation.
• —years of creation: string - A combined field representing the creation period (date_start-date_end).
• —full_info: string - A concatenated string containing museum-specific information about the artwork.
• —For Louvre artworks: Includes data from title, artist, attribution, years of creation, description, index, inscriptions, museum, museum_region, museum_country.
• —For AIC artworks: Includes data from title, artist, years of creation, tags, style_title, subjects, classification, techniques, materials, description, categories, place_of_origin, museum, museum_region, museum_country.
• —museum_id: int - Identifier for the museum: 0 for Musée du Louvre, 1 for The Art Institute of Chicago.
• —museum: string - Name of the museum: Musée du Louvre or The Art Institute of Chicago.
• —museum_region: string - Region of the museum: Paris, France or Chicago, USA.
• —museum_country: string - Country of the museum: France or USA.

Data Splits

This dataset currently comprises a single merged split containing all the artworks from both the Louvre and AIC datasets.

Dataset Creation

This combined dataset was created by merging data from the following sources:

• —Louvre Collection: Data was originally obtained through the official API of the Musée du Louvre (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/page/documentationJSON) and is available as the Louvre Paper and Canvas Collection on Hugging Face Datasets.
• —Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) Collection: Data was obtained through the archived database of the AIC (originally downloadable from https://artic-api-data.s3.amazonaws.com/artic-api-data.tar.bz2) and is available as the AIC Dataset 0.2 on Hugging Face Datasets.

The merging process involved identifying common fields and creating the full_info field to encapsulate museum-specific details. The museum_id, museum, museum_region, and museum_country fields were added to explicitly indicate the origin of each artwork.

Additional Information

Creators: This combined dataset was created by Anna Bozhenko.

Source Data:

• —Musée du Louvre API: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/page/documentationJSON
• —Art Institute of Chicago API Documentation: https://api.artic.edu/docs/

Derivative Datasets on Hugging Face (Created from the original museums' sources):

• —Louvre Paper and Canvas Collection
• —AIC Dataset 0.2