Dataset Card for [Smithsonian Butterflies]

Dataset Summary

High-res images from Smithsonian "Education and Outreach" & "NMNH - Entomology Dept." collections. Crawled

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Includes metadata about the scientific name of butterflies, but there maybe missing values. Might be good for classification.

Languages

English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Example data

{'image_url': 'https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=ark:/65665/m3b3132f6666904de396880d9dc811c5cd',
 'image_alt': 'view Aholibah Underwing digital asset number 1',
 'id': 'ark:/65665/m3b3132f6666904de396880d9dc811c5cd',
 'name': 'Aholibah Underwing',
 'scientific_name': 'Catocala aholibah',
 'gender': None,
 'taxonomy': 'Animalia, Arthropoda, Hexapoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Catocalinae',
 'region': None,
 'locality': None,
 'date': None,
 'usnm_no': 'EO400317-DSP',
 'guid': 'http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39b506292-715f-45a7-8511-b49bb087c7de',
 'edan_url': 'edanmdm:nmnheducation_10866595',
 'source': 'Smithsonian Education and Outreach collections',
 'stage': None,
 'image': <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=2000x1328 at 0x7F57D0504DC0>,
 'image_hash': '27a5fe92f72f8b116d3b7d65bac84958',
 'sim_score': 0.8440760970115662}
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Data Fields

sim-score indicates clip score for "pretty butterfly". This is to eliminate non-butterfly images(just id card images etc)

Data Splits

No specific split exists.

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Crawled from "Education and Outreach" & "NMNH - Entomology Dept." collections found online here

Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

Doesn't include all butterfly species ## Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Smithsonian "Education and Outreach" & "NMNH - Entomology Dept." collections

Licensing Information

Only results marked: CC0

Citation Information

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Contributions

Thanks to @cceyda for adding this dataset.