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| language: |
| - multilingual |
| tags: |
| - newspapers |
| - historical-documents |
| - ocr |
| - iiif |
| - europeana |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
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| # Europeana Newspapers Sample Dataset |
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| ## Dataset Description |
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| This is a curated sample from the Europeana newspapers dataset, prepared for Vision-Language Model (VLM) experiments. |
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| ### Dataset Sources |
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| - **Original Dataset:** [biglam/europeana_newspapers](https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/europeana_newspapers) |
| - **Source:** Europeana digital library |
| - **License:** See original dataset |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
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| Each sample contains a newspaper page image downloaded via IIIF along with associated metadata. |
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| ### Data Fields |
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| - `image`: The newspaper page image (PIL Image) |
| - `date`: Publication date (ground truth for extraction tasks) |
| - `title`: Newspaper title |
| - `issue`: Issue number |
| - `iiif_url`: Original IIIF image URL |
| - `text`: OCR text content |
| - `mean_ocr`: OCR quality score (0-1) |
| - `language`: Document language |
| - `issue_uri`: Unique identifier |
| - `download_status`: Status of image download |
| - `download_retries`: Number of retry attempts needed |
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| ## Processing Notes |
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| - Images were downloaded using IIIF protocol with automatic fallback to lower resolutions |
| - Failed downloads were excluded from the final dataset |
| - All images are converted to RGB format |
| - Dataset was created using async downloading for efficiency |
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