Faces extracted from Trove newspaper photographs

This is a collection of faces extracted from digitised newspapers available through http://trove.nla.gov.au. Photographs were harvested from the newspapers using the Trove API. OpenCV2 was used to extract faces from the photographs. The filenames of the faces include important contextual information. for example: 18950209-460-139706071-1.jpg This filename contains four fields separated by hyphens. <strong>18950209</strong> – date the original newspaper article was published. In this case 1895–02–09 in ISO format, or 9 February 1895. <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: web – http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title460 API – http://api.trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/460?key=[your API key] <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: web – http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139706071 API – http://api.trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/139706071?key=[your API key] <strong>1</strong> – the index of the face extracted from the article. You can also explore the same dataset using my Face API. Tim Sherratt (@wragge) [e-mail] 7 June 2015