biglam/bpl-card-catalog

波士顿公共图书馆珍贵书籍卡片目录数据集包含了大约410,000张数字化卡片，这些卡片来自波士顿公共图书馆珍贵书籍部门的卡片目录。这些卡片代表了主要目录条目（作者/标题互参），涵盖了来自不同历史时期的印刷材料。数据集适用于训练和评估AI模型，包括OCR和手写识别、信息提取、文档格式布局分析和图书馆档案材料上的视觉语言模型性能。

The Boston Public Library Rare Books Card Catalog Dataset contains approximately 410,000 digitized catalog cards from the Boston Public Librarys Rare Books Department card catalog. These cards represent the main entry catalog (author/title cross-referenced) covering printed materials from various historical periods. The dataset is valuable for training and evaluating AI models on OCR and handwriting recognition, information extraction, layout analysis of document formats, and vision-language model performance on library/archival materials.