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encyclopaedia-britannica-lance
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1771-1860) - Lance Format
This dataset contains 155,388 digitized pages from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, spanning editions from 1771 to 1860. The data is stored in Lance format for efficient streaming and lazy image loading.
Dataset Details
Total Pages: 155,388
Total Volumes: 195
Format: Lance (columnar format with blob storage for images)
Source: National Library of Scotland (NLS)
License: Public Domain (CC0)
Loading the Dataset… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/encyclopaedia-britannica-lance.index-cards-eval
Index Cards
Catalogue metadata extracted from digitised material with a multimodal model and
human-reviewed.
Schema
Field
Type
Description
image_type
Literal['index_card', 'cross_reference', 'verso', 'cover', 'blank', 'other']
heading
Optional[str]
heading_type
Optional[Literal['person', 'family', 'corporate', 'geographic', 'subject']]
epithet
Optional[str]
cross_reference
Optional[str]
For cross_reference cards: the normalized heading this… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/index-cards-eval.medical-history-of-british-india
A Medical History of British India Dataset
Dataset Description
This dataset contains digitiaed official publications documenting medical research and public health in British India from 1850-1950. The collection represents a crucial period in medical history, capturing the transition from humoral to biochemical medical traditions and documenting major breakthroughs in bacteriology, parasitology, and vaccine development. These documents provide invaluable insights into… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/medical-history-of-british-india.nls_chapbook_illustrations
Dataset Card for National Library of Scotland Chapbook Illustrations
Dataset Summary
This dataset comprises of images from chapbooks held by the National Library of Scotland and digitised and published as its Chapbooks Printed in Scotland dataset.
"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… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/nls_chapbook_illustrations.encyclopaedia_britannica_illustrated
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.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/encyclopaedia_britannica_illustrated.catalogue_published_material
Dataset summary
This dataset contains the bibliographic records from the Library’s catalogue of published material: books, maps, music, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, flyers and more, and includes records for printed and digital publications. It excludes records from our catalogue where we believe the originator exerts rights over the re-use of the metadata.
This version contains over 5 million records which are split into 51 files of approximately 100,000 records each for ease… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/catalogue_published_material.Britain-and-UK-Handbooks-Dataset
Britain and UK Handbooks Dataset
Dataset Description
This dataset contains digitised Britain and UK Handbooks from the National Library of Scotland's digital collections. These annual reference books were originally published by the British Information Service (starting in 1946) to provide overseas readers with comprehensive information about the United Kingdom.
Dataset Summary
Source: National Library of Scotland - Britain and UK Handbooks
Time Period:… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/Britain-and-UK-Handbooks-Dataset.Scottish-School-Exam-Papers
Scottish School Exam Papers Dataset
Dataset Description
This dataset contains digitised Scottish school examination papers from the National Library of Scotland's (NLS) digital collections. The papers represent historical educational assessment materials that have been processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text content alongside the original page images.
Dataset Summary
Source: National Library of Scotland - Scottish School Exam Papers… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/Scottish-School-Exam-Papers.nls-index-cards-object-detection
NLS Advocates Library Index Card Detection Dataset
An object detection dataset for identifying index cards on scanned pages from the Advocates Library manuscript collection at the National Library of Scotland.
Dataset Description
This dataset contains 100 annotated scanned page images from the Advocates Library manuscript index card collection. Each image is annotated with bounding boxes marking the location of index cards on the page, enabling training of object… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/nls-index-cards-object-detection.