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biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages

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The checks could not identify a recognised licence ID in the dataset's metadata.

Declared licence: other, from the tagEvidence: README.md at d14ad4c
Licence name on the card: public-domain-by-publication-date-pre-1930Evidence: README.md at d14ad4c
Licence files: No licence file at the top level of the repositoryEvidence: file list at d14ad4c
Declared sources: None listed in the card metadata
Access gated on Hugging Face: No

Each cell links to what was checked: a file, a file list or a Hub record.

Tasks

image-classification

Citation text from the card

Cite the Internet Archive item (`ia_url`) and contributing library for the scans, and the
[National Library of Scotland](https://huggingface.co/datasets/NationalLibraryOfScotland/encyclopaedia_britannica_illustrated)
for the training labels. Classifier, scan and curation by [Daniel van Strien](https://huggingface.co/davanstrien)
(Machine Learning Librarian, Hugging Face); published under [BigLAM](https://huggingface.co/biglam), the
BigScience/Hugging Face initiative for libraries, archives and museums data.

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dataset_licence({ "id": "biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages" })
signal: "unclear"
stated_licence: "other"
sources: 0