National Library of Scotland
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.Highland-News-1895-1922
Highland News 1895-1922 Dataset
Dataset description and context
This dataset contains digitised images from editions of the Highland News between 1895 and 1922. The National Library of Scotland has digitised from issue 594 (23 Feb 1895) to issue 2048 (30 December 1922) using the newspaper collections of Western Isles Libraries. Issues up to at least issue 695 (Sat 23 Jan 1897) are all the "West Coast" edition.
Highland News was founded in October 1883. The… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/Highland-News-1895-1922.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.