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anna-bozhenko/louvre-paper-and-canvas-collection

Louvre Museum Online Collection Dataset (Paintings & Prints and Drawings) Dataset Summary This dataset comprises a selection of artworks specifically from the "paintings" and "prints and drawings" departments of the Louvre Museum's online collection. It's important to note that this dataset represents an incomplete set of characteristics for each artwork, as the full details available through the museum are more extensive. The data was gathered via the museum's… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/anna-bozhenko/louvre-paper-and-canvas-collection.

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Louvre Museum Online Collection Dataset (Paintings & Prints and Drawings)

Dataset Summary

This dataset comprises a selection of artworks specifically from the "paintings" and "prints and drawings" departments of the Louvre Museum's online collection. It's important to note that this dataset represents an incomplete set of characteristics for each artwork, as the full details available through the museum are more extensive. The data was gathered via the museum's public API (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/page/documentationJSON).

Given that the original data is in French, certain fields have been translated into English using the Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en model (https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr) implemented with the transformers library.

The dataset contains information in both French and English. For detailed descriptions of the original fields, please refer to the Louvre Museum API documentation.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

This dataset can be utilized for a variety of tasks, including:

—Multilingual Data Analysis: Exploring and comparing artwork metadata in both French and English.
—Natural Language Processing (NLP): Analyzing titles, descriptions, and other textual information in both languages.
—Machine Translation Evaluation: Utilizing the original French and translated English fields for evaluating the performance of translation models.
—Cross-lingual Information Retrieval: Developing systems to retrieve information about artworks based on queries in either French or English.
—Art History Research: Studying patterns and trends within the selected artwork categories.

Languages

This dataset contains information primarily in French (original data) and English (for some translated fields).

Data Fields

The dataset includes various fields as provided by the Louvre Museum API. Some of these fields may have been translated into English. Refer to the Louvre Museum API documentation for a comprehensive list and description of the original fields.

Translated fields (English) include:

—translated_title
—translated_materialsAndTechniques:
—translated_attribution
—translated_index
—translated_inscriptions
—translated_description

Dataset Creation

The data for this dataset was collected through API integration with the Louvre Museum's online collection (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/page/documentationJSON). The data was specifically filtered to include artworks from the "paintings" and "prints and drawings" departments.

The selection of fields included in this dataset represents a subset of the complete information available through the Louvre Museum API.

Additional Information

Source: Data originates from the online collection of the Louvre Museum (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/).

API Documentation: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/page/documentationJSON

Translation Model: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en (https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr)