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-license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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+dataset_name: "Forbin Dataset"
+tags:
+  - humanities
+  - digital-humanities
+  - archives
+  - historical-documents
+  - text-detection
+  - polygon-annotation
+  - verso-recto photographs
+license: cc-by-nc-4.0
+task_categories:
+  - object-detection
+  - feature-extraction
+  - image-classification
+pretty_name: "Forbin Dataset: A collection of historical photographs with archival metadata"
+---
+
+# Forbin Dataset:  *A collection of historical photographs with archival metadata*
+
+This repository hosts a small **public sample** of the *Forbin Dataset*, a large-scale collection of historical photographs taken or collected by **Victor Forbin (1868–1947)**.  
+The full dataset (images + COCO-style annotations + metadata) will be released on **Hugging Face** after the acceptance of the associated data paper.
+
+This GitHub version provides:
+- A small curated subset of images  
+- COCO-style annotations (segmentation polygons)  
+- Archival metadata (Box ID, description, notes, dates when available)  
+- A lightweight **explorer interface** (HTML/JS) to preview images and annotations
+
+
+## 📜 Dataset Description
+
+The Forbin Dataset contains digitized historical photographs from the personal archives of Victor Forbin, a French explorer, photographer, and writer.  
+Images are accompanied by rich metadata and manually extracted segmentation polygons suitable for:
+
+- Computer Vision  
+- Document Analysis  
+- Cultural Heritage Studies  
+- Machine Learning Research  
+
+The sample included here is intended for **illustration and early experimentation only**.  
+The upcoming full release will contain tens of thousands of images with complete metadata and annotations.
+
+
+## 🔖 License
+
+This sample dataset is released under the following license:
+
+**Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)**  
+➡️ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
+
+This means:
+- ✔ You must provide attribution  
+- ✔ You may share and adapt the material  
+- ❌ You may **not** use it for commercial purposes  
+
+
+## 📚 Citation
+
+If you use this dataset or the sample in academic work, please cite the forthcoming data paper:
+
+```
+
+[Under review] 
+Chelali M., Gosselet S. K., Cloppet F., Kurtz C., Bloch I. and Foliard D., The Forbin Dataset: Forbin Dataset:  A collection of historical photographs with archival metadata, 2025.
+
+```
+
+
+## 🖥️ Online Demo (GitHub Pages)
+
+Once published, the explorer will be available at: [https://mchelali.github.io/forbin_dataset/](https://mchelali.github.io/forbin_dataset/)
+
+
+
+## 🤝 Acknowledgment of Authors
+
+This dataset originates from the personal archives of **Victor Forbin**, digitized and curated by the *High Vision Project – Archives & Vision Initiative*.  
+All annotation and data processing work was performed by the project contributors.