biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text

Cooper Hewitt visual descriptions (CC0 images and text) 49,253 objects from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Each row has a CC0 image and a short visual description written by a museum cataloguer. We built this while looking for openly licensed, human-written descriptions of heritage images that actually describe what is in the picture. There are very few. wikimedia/wit_base has an alt-text field, but only 4.8% of English rows have one, and the median is five words… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/cooper-hewitt-alt-text.

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