Dataset Card for hanse-kurrent-xvi-lines

This dataset was created using pagexml-hf converter from Transkribus PageXML data. The dataset contains transkriptions of the Minutes of the low German town assemblies (Niederdeutsche Städtetage) from the 16th Century from various archives. The Texts include middle low German and New High German Languages

Transcriptions were created according to the following guidelines: Forschungsstelle für die Geschichte der Hanse und des Ostseeraums (FGHO). (2026). Transkriptionsrichtlinien "Hanse.Quellen.Lesen!". Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20746642

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains 27,217 samples across 2 split(s).

Dataset Structure

Data Splits

• train: 25,856 samples
• test: 1,361 samples

Dataset Size

• Approximate total size: 7,904.95 MB
• Total samples: 27,217

Features

• image: Image(mode=None, decode=False)
• text: Value('string')
• line_id: Value('string')
• line_reading_order: Value('int64')
• region_id: Value('string')
• region_reading_order: Value('int64')
• region_type: Value('string')
• filename: Value('string')
• project_name: Value('string')

Data Organization

Data is organized as parquet shards by split and project:

data/
├── <split>/
│   └── <project_name>/
│       └── <timestamp>-<shard>.parquet

The HuggingFace Hub automatically merges all parquet files when loading the dataset.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load entire dataset
dataset = load_dataset("fgho/hanse-kurrent-xvi-lines") 

# Load specific split
train_dataset = load_dataset("fgho/hanse-kurrent-xvi-lines", split="train")

Projects Included

1505-02-10_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Dienstag_nach_Scholastice_1505(SAHST_Rep__2,I_040-4), 1507-05-13_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Ascensio_Domini_1507(SAHST_Rep__2,I_040-6), 1509-02-07_Rezess_Lübeck_Mittwoch_nach_Dorothee_virginis_1509(SAHST_Rep__2,I_040-7a), 1518-06-19_Rezess(HAStK-RBA_Best__82_A10_e), 1521-05-29_Rezess(HAStK-RBA_Best__82_A10_H), 1523-02-14_Hanserezess,Stralsund_Antonius_abb__Casgin_1523(SAHST_Rep__2,I_070), 1526-11-18_Hanserezess,Lübeck_1526(SAHST_Rep__2,I_077), 1534-06-29_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Peter_u__Paul_1534(SAHST_Rep__2,I_082), 1534-09-21_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Matthäus_1534(SAHST_Rep__2,I_083), 1542-02-26_Rezess_Versammlung_der_wendischen_Städte(AHL-Hanseatica_163), 1543-04-01_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Quasi_modo_1543(SAHST_Rep__2,I_091), 1553-05-30_Teilrezess_Allgemeine_Versammlung_der_Hansestädte_zu_Lübeck,1553_Mai(AHL_162a), 1554-10-01_Rezess(HAStK_RBA_Best__82_A213), 1557-08-10_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Bartholomäi_1557(SAHST_Rep__2,I_105), 1562_Rezess_Hansetag(StA_Hannover-1_AA_2_01__N_20), 1563-05-23_Rezess_Versammlung_wendische_Städte(AHL-Hanseatica_171), 1575-09-16_Rezess_Versammlung_wendische_Städte(AHL_Hanseatica-174), 1577-04-03_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Montag_nach_Palmarum_1577(SAHST_Rep__2,I_118), 1581-10-06_Rezess_Versammlung_wendische_Städte,Quartiershauptstädte_und_Bremen(AHL-Hanseatica_181), 1584-06-30_Rezess_Versammlung_wendische_Städte,Quartiershauptstädte_und_Bremen(AHL-Hanseatica_182), 1584-11-28_Rezess_Allgemeine_Versammlung_der_Hansestädte(AHL-_Hanseatica_183), 1588-09-09_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Tag_nach_Mariä_Geburt_1588(SAHST_Rep__2,_I_127), 1595-04-28_Hanserezess,Lübeck_Montag_nach_Quasimodo_geniti_1595(SAHST_Rep__2,_I_131)