Imaging · dataset · 2026
Britannica Illustrated Pages
Listed in Hugging Face Datasets
Description
Britannica Illustrated Pages 115,293 illustrated pages from scanned volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st edition (1768–71) to 14th (1929), selected by a page classifier from 975,345 pages in 1,160 volumes (838 Internet Archive items). A second config carries the classifier score, OCR word count and provenance for every one of the 975,345 pages. Two things the scan showed: 82% of the illustrated pages are text pages (≥100 OCR words) — figures, diagrams and engravings set… See the full description on the dataset page: huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages.
Links
Where it is published
- Hugging Face dataset page huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages ↗
landing page · from Hugging Face
Catalogue records · 1
- Hub API huggingface.co/api/datasets/biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages ↗
metadata API · from Hugging Face
Topics
- Stated by source
- image · image classification · tabular · text
- From keywords
- Computer Science & AI
- Inferred from text
- Optical character recognition 65% · Text 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 14 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Datasets | biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages | 8 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 | enrichment · Hugging Face | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:image | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:tabular | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].hf_modality:text | 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%) |
| concepts[task].hf_task:image-classification | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /tags[task_categories:*] |
| created_date | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | /description |
| license_text | source · Hugging Face | connector:huggingface@1.0.0 | |
| 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 |