README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
  - photos
  - images
  - exif
  - photo-management
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<50K

Photo Corpus

A corpus of ~32k real-world photos with EXIF metadata, for developing and testing photo management software.

Sources

Folder	Count	Source	EXIF date coverage
yfcc/	31,385	YFCC100M (Flickr originals)	~78%
oi/	1,034	Open Images (Flickr originals)	~92%

Photos are Flickr originals with intact EXIF (GPS, dates, camera info) where available. Photos without EXIF DateTimeOriginal have file mtime set to the Flickr upload date as fallback.

Format

WebDataset-style tar shards (~1GB each):

• yfcc/yfcc-0000.tar … yfcc-0024.tar
• oi/oi-0000.tar … oi-0002.tar

Each tar contains JPEG files named by content hash.

Usage

import tarfile
from pathlib import Path

for shard in sorted(Path("yfcc").glob("*.tar")):
    with tarfile.open(shard) as tar:
        tar.extractall("photos/")