Imaging · dataset · 2026
Institutional Newspapers: Boston Public Library
Listed in Hugging Face Datasets
Description
📰 Institutional Newspapers: Boston Public Library A structured dataset derived from the Boston Public Library's public domain newspapers collection, produced by the Institutional Data Initiative in collaboration with Boston Public Library. 1,473,635 public domain newspaper scans, published between 1795 and 1930 83,147,041 individual crops segmented from those scans 16.3 billion o200k_base tokens of VLM OCR text, and 14.7 billion from Tesseract Data for each crop: bbox… See the full description on the dataset page: huggingface.co/datasets/institutional/institutional-newspapers-bpl.
Links
Get the data
- Hugging Face dataset page huggingface.co/datasets/institutional/institutional-newspapers-bpl ↗
Gated (auto) - request access on the dataset page
landing page · request access · from Hugging Face
Documentation and papers
- arXiv:2608.18972 arxiv.org/abs/2608.18972 ↗
publication · from Hugging Face
Catalogue records · 1
- Hub API huggingface.co/api/datasets/institutional/institutional-newspapers-bpl ↗
metadata API · from Hugging Face
Topics
- Stated by source
- image · text · timeseries
- From keywords
- Computer Science & AI · Optical character recognition
- Inferred from text
- Text 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Datasets | institutional/institutional-newspapers-bpl | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /gated |
| concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-ai | mapping · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[method].local:method:ocr | mapping · Hugging Face | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['ocr'] |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:image | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:text | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:timeseries | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:text | enrichment · Hugging Face | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| created_date | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /id |
| updated_date | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 |