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Boston Public Library Card Catalog

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Boston Public Library Rare Books Card Catalog Dataset Dataset Description This dataset contains approximately 410,000 digitized catalog cards from the Boston Public Library's Rare Books Department card catalog.

Description

The cards represent the main entry catalog (author/title cross-referenced) covering printed materials from various historical periods. Why This Dataset?

Historical card catalogs are rich sources of: Bibliographic information structured in… See the full description on the dataset page: huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/bpl-card-catalog.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
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Hugging Face Datasetsbiglam/bpl-card-catalog10 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0/gated
concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-aimapping · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0
concepts[method].local:method:ocrmapping · Hugging Facevocabulary-mapper@1.0.0keywords['ocr']
concepts[modality].hf_modality:imagesource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0
concepts[modality].hf_modality:textsource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0
created_datesource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0
descriptionsource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0/description
licensesource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0/tags[license:*]
publication_datesource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0
titlesource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0/id
updated_datesource · Hugging Faceconnector:huggingface@1.0.0