README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-sa-4.0
viewer: true
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
language:
  - en
pretty_name: The O'Reilly Animal Menagerie
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
tags:
  - oreilly
  - books
  - animals
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    - name: engraving_image
      dtype: image
    - name: book_title
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    - name: author
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    - name: publish_date
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      dtype: json
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    - name: kingdom
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    - name: phylum
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    - name: order
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    - name: family
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    - name: habitats
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    - name: threats
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    - name: doc_population
      dtype: string
    - name: doc_habitats
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    - name: doc_threats
      dtype: string
    - name: doc_measures
      dtype: string
    - name: doc_rationale
      dtype: string
    - name: number_of_pages
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    - name: description
      dtype: string
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    - name: train
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      num_examples: 1414
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  dataset_size: 3225891899

The O'Reilly Animal Menagerie

A dataset of animals from the book covers of O'Reilly Media.

Read Edie Freedman's fantastic piece on the history of the O'Reilly animals here: https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly-animals/

Dataset

The dataset has 1414 rows, all sourced from the O'Reilly Menagerie and enriched with metadata.

A JSON-ified row of the dataset:

{
  "animal_name": "Flat-Headed Cat, kitten",
  "scientific_name": "Prionailurus planiceps",
  "book_title": "Essential Blogging",
  "author": "Doctorow, Cory",
  "animal_class": "mammal",
  "kingdom": "ANIMALIA",
  "phylum": "CHORDATA",
  "class_name": "MAMMALIA",
  "order": "CARNIVORA",
  "family": "FELIDAE",
  "iucn_code": "EN",
  "iucn_criteria": "C1",
  "iucn_year": "2015",
  "iucn_url": "https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18148/50662095",
  "population_trend": "Decreasing",
  "systems": [
    "Terrestrial",
    "Freshwater (=Inland waters)"
  ],
  "habitats": [
    "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)",
    "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level",
    "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp"
  ],
  "threats": [
    {
      "threat": "Motivation Unknown/Unrecorded",
      "severity": null,
      "timing": "Ongoing"
    },
    {
      "threat": "Shifting agriculture",
      "severity": null,
      "timing": "Ongoing"
    },
    {
      "threat": "Unintentional effects: (large scale) [harvest]",
      "severity": null,
      "timing": "Ongoing"
    }
  ],
  "conservation_actions": [
    "Site/area management",
    "Training",
    "Site/area protection"
  ],
  "doc_range": "The Flat-headed Cat has a restricted distribution, found only on Sumatra, Borneo and the Malayan Peninsula (Malaysia and extreme southern Thailand). I...",
  "doc_threats": "Wetland and lowland forest destruction and degradation is the primary threat faced by the species (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Wilting et al. 2010). Caus...",
  "wiki_title": "Flat-headed cat",
  "qid": "Q274177",
  "commons_photo_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flat-headed_cat_1_Jim_Sanderson.JPG",
  "commons_range_map_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flat-headedCat_distribution2015.jpg"
}

License

This dataset is provided for research and educational purposes. The book cover images and animal engravings are property of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Metadata is sourced from Wikimedia projects (the CC BY-SA 4.0 license only covers that part of the dataset) and book metadata from the Internet Archive. This dataset is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by O’Reilly Media, Inc.