10.6084/m9.figshare.1439432.v1
Tim Sherratt
Tim
Sherratt
Faces extracted from Trove newspaper photographs
figshare
2015
face detection
history
Digital Humanities
2015-06-07 08:19:51
Dataset
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Faces_extracted_from_Trove_newspaper_photographs/1439432
<p>This is a collection of faces extracted from digitised newspapers available through http://trove.nla.gov.au.</p>
<p>Photographs were harvested from the newspapers using the Trove API. OpenCV2 was used to extract faces from the photographs.</p>
<p>The filenames of the faces include important contextual information. for example:</p>
<p>18950209-460-139706071-1.jpg</p>
<p>This filename contains four fields separated by hyphens.</p>
<p><strong>18950209</strong> – date the original newspaper article was published. In this case 1895–02–09 in ISO format, or 9 February 1895.</p>
<p><strong>460</strong> – the Trove identifier for the newspaper in which the article was published. By appending this to a Trove url you can retrieve more information via the web interface or API:</p>
<p>web – http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title460</p>
<p>API – http://api.trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/460?key=[your API key]</p>
<p><strong>139706071</strong> – the Trove identifier for the article. By appending this to a Trove url you can retrieve more information via the web interface or API:</p>
<p>web – http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139706071</p>
<p>API – http://api.trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/139706071?key=[your API key]</p>
<p><strong>1</strong> – the index of the face extracted from the article.</p>
<p>You can also explore the same dataset using my Face API.</p>
<p>Tim Sherratt (@wragge) tim@discontents.com.au 7 June 2015</p>