ROSCOSMOS/Vogue-Runway-Weburl-Dataset

Vogue Runway WebURL Dataset

Dataset Description

This is a tabular WebURL dataset derived from the `Vogue Runway - Images Dataset'.

The dataset contains 1,281,633 rows. Each row provides a source image URL and selected metadata such as image dimensions, designer, season, year, category, file size, aesthetic score, and JSON-encoded tags.

This release does not redistribute image files. It is intended as a lightweight URL/index metadata dataset for research, sampling, filtering, and controlled downstream ingestion.

Contents

The repository contains:

train.parquet

The dataset contains one split:

train: 1,281,633 rows

No original .jpg files, .json sidecars, WebDataset .tar archives, or CLIP image embeddings are included.

Structure

This is a single-table Parquet dataset with the following columns:

Column	Type	Description
url	string	Source image URL.
width	int64	Source image width in pixels.
height	int64	Source image height in pixels.
key	string	Stable source key retained from the original metadata.
designer	string	Designer or fashion house name.
season	string	Fashion season.
year	int64	Collection year.
category	string	Collection/category label where available.
city	string	City metadata where available. This field is often null.
size_bytes	int64	Source image file size in bytes.
aesthetic	float64	Source aesthetic score retained for metadata parity.
tags	string	JSON-encoded tag list. Empty/missing tags are represented as [].

Key Format

The key column is retained from the source metadata. In the original archive layout, the first three digits indicate the WebDataset shard number, while the last four digits indicate the image position within that shard.

For example:

0992383

corresponds to:

shard: 099
position: 2383

This release does not require the original shard layout because images are referenced directly through the url column. The key is retained as a stable source identifier and for users who may want to cross-reference the original archive structure.

Provenance

This dataset was generated from the VogueRunway.parquet metadata table associated with the Internet Archive item:

Vogue Runway - Images Dataset
Identifier: VogueRunway_dataset
https://archive.org/details/VogueRunway_dataset

The Internet Archive item describes the original source as a Vogue Runway image dataset containing images and metadata stored in WebDataset-compatible archives, accompanied by a Parquet metadata table.

This Hugging Face release keeps only the URL and selected metadata fields. It omits local archive-specific fields such as original filenames and editorial section labels.

This release does not assert ownership of the original archive, the underlying images, the linked image content, or the source metadata. No claim is made about the original creator, first publisher, licensing status, or complete distribution history of the source archive.

Disclaimers

License and Rights

This release does not redistribute the original image files. It provides a metadata table containing source image URLs and selected metadata derived from the original metadata table.

The linked images are associated with Vogue Runway and/or their respective photographers, publishers, designers, agencies, and rights holders. This dataset does not grant any license to download, copy, redistribute, train on, publish, or commercially use the linked image content.

Users are responsible for determining whether their intended use of the URLs, metadata, downloaded images, or derivative datasets is permitted under applicable law, platform terms, copyright restrictions, database rights, robots policies, and any relevant terms of service from the original image hosts.

The inclusion of a URL in this dataset should not be interpreted as a license, permission, endorsement, or waiver of rights. Republication or redistribution of the original image files is unlikely to be license-free and may require permission from the relevant rights holders.

This dataset is provided as a metadata/indexing resource only.

URL Availability

A URL availability scan was performed before publication. A very small number of URLs returned HTTP 404 responses at scan time. Because the number was inconsequential relative to the full dataset size, rows were not destructively filtered.

Users should expect minor link rot and should handle failed downloads during downstream ingestion.

Aesthetic Score

The aesthetic column is retained from the source metadata for parity with the original dataset.

The score appears to have been derived using an aesthetic scoring workflow based on CLIP image embeddings and a small pretrained aesthetic prediction model, similar to the sd-extension-aesthetic-scorer implementation by vladmandic:

https://github.com/vladmandic/sd-extension-aesthetic-scorer

These scores should be treated as heuristic metadata only. They are not objective measures of image quality, fashion relevance, cultural value, editorial usefulness, or dataset suitability. Aesthetic scoring models are sensitive to their training data, annotation process, embedded preferences, and domain mismatch.

The column is included solely for compatibility/parity with the original metadata. Users are encouraged to ignore, recalibrate, or replace this field according to their own filtering criteria.