nwokikeonyeka/gi_jones_archive_dataset

G.I. Jones Photographic Archive (SIU) Dataset (Raw)

This dataset is a curated, raw-text-and-image collection of the G.I. Jones Photographic Archive, hosted by Southern Illinois University (SIU) at https://jonesarchive.siu.edu/.

The photographs were taken in the 1930s by the late G. I. Jones. These photos are unique for the cultural and historical significance of photographic records from this time period in Nigeria.

This dataset is intended for research, educational, and AI development purposes.

💾 Dataset Structure

The dataset is in .jsonl format, with a corresponding /images folder. Each line in data.jsonl corresponds to a single scraped photograph and follows this schema (schema_v1):

{
  "id": "string",
  "source_name": "G.I. Jones Archive (SIU)",
  "source_type": "primary",
  "original_url": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "raw_content": "string",
  "images": [
    {
      "file_name": "string",
      "original_url": "string",
      "raw_caption": "string|null",
      "width": "int",
      "height": "int",
      "file_size_bytes": "int"
    }
  ],
  "tags_scraped": [],
  "license_info": "© G.I. Jones Estate (Handled by MAA Cambridge)",
  "timestamp_scraped": "string",
  "source_specific_metadata": {
      "source_id": "gijones",
      "gallery_page": "string"
  }
}

⚠️ License and Legal Information

This dataset contains copyrighted material.

According to the archive's about page, the copyright for these photographs is held by the G.I. Jones Estate and administered by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) at Cambridge University.

• Content Source: All items include an original_url field pointing to the original material.
• Our License: The structure of this dataset (i.e., our JSON schema and the collection itself) is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0) license.
• User Responsibility: Any user of this dataset must provide proper attribution to the original source and adhere to the copyright terms of the G.I. Jones Estate and MAA Cambridge.

Citing This Dataset

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it as:

@dataset{nwokike_gi_jones_archive_2025,
  author    = {Nwokike, Onyeka},
  title     = {G.I. Jones Photographic Archive (SIU) Dataset},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  version   = {1.0},
  url       = "[https://huggingface.co/datasets/nwokikeonyeka/gi_jones_archive_dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nwokikeonyeka/gi_jones_archive_dataset)"
}