Teklia/DAI-CReTDHI-RecordGold-ATR

DAI-records-ATR - Record level

This dataset comprises parish and civil records from three main locations in France:

• Ardennes
• Tours
• Ile de Ré

Dataset Summary

The DAI-cards-ATR dataset includes 7,720 handwritten records from the XVI-XIXth centuries.

These records have been annotated by experts as part of the DAI-CReTDHI research project, using Teklia's open-source annotation interface Callico.

Split

set	images
train	6178
val	784
test	758

Languages

All the documents in the dataset are written in French.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each instance represents a record with its image and transcription:

{
    "split": "test",
    "source": "Ardennes",
    "record_id": "076e0576-7938-4d03-8e9d-0344d588ad92",
    "record_url": "https://europe.iiif.teklia.com/iiif/2/geneanet%2FArdennes_BMS%2F382444%2F00104.jpg/1389,93,1234,443/full/0/default.jpg",
    "start_date": 1629,
    "end_date": 1696,
    "parish": "Mézières",
    "text": "1664\nLe samedi vingthuit jour de juin 1664 a esté baptisé Christophle du Raulin fils de Paulin Petitcolas et de Fabian Pessegniet ses pere et mere duquel ont esté parin et marine Christophle du Verdelet et Jeanne Petitcolas sa femme."}

Data Fields

• split (string): Dataset split identifier (train, val, or test)
• source (string): Source collection
• record_id (string): Unique UUID identifier for the record in Arkindex
• record_url (string): IIIF URL to the image
• start_date (int): Start year of the corresponding parish register
• end_date (int): End year of the corresponding parish register
• parish (string): Name of the parish where the record originates
• text (string): Expert transcription. The transcription may include the following special tokens to indicate annotation uncertainty or editorial features:
  • [UNCERTAIN]: Indicates a segment that could not be confidently transcribed by the annotator. This token replaces the unreadable or ambiguous portion.
  • [CROSSED_OUT]: Placed immediately before a word or sequence of words that are crossed out in the original document. The crossed-out content itself is still transcribed and follows this token.