---
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- expert-generated
- machine-generated
languages:
- ru
licenses:
- afl-3.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: 'The Pages of Early Soviet Performance (PESP) uses machine learning to
  generate multiple datasets of early-Soviet illustrated periodicals related to the
  performing arts. By using computer vision techniques and training a YOLO (You Only
  Look Once) real-time object detection model, we are producing textual and image
  data that will facilitate new avenues of research about Soviet culture during the
  first decades after the October Revolution (1917-1932).


  Our starting point is Princeton University Library''s Digital PUL (DPUL) where ten
  titles - totaling 526 issues and approximately 26,000 pages - of Soviet performance
  journals have been digitized and can be freely viewed online. Journals are a diverse
  and complex genre: taken together, this collection contains hundreds of thousands
  of articles, poems, editorial commentary, advertisements as well as images, illustrations
  and graphic art. Today, researchers can browse the journals and view and download
  high-quality page images on DPUL.'
size_categories: []
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- other
task_ids: []
---

# Dataset Card for Pages of Early Soviet Performance (PESP)

This dataset was created as part of the [Early Soviet Performance](https://cdh.princeton.edu/projects/pages-early-soviet-performance/) project at Princeton and is an effort to generate useful research data from a previously scanned [collection of illustrated periodicals](https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog?f%5Breadonly_collections_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Russian+Illustrated+Periodicals) held by Princeton's Firestone Library.  Our work focused on document segmentation and the prediction of images, text, and mixed text in the document images.  The mixedtext category refers to segments where the typeface and text layout are mixed with other visual elements.  At a practical level, this category identifies sections that present problems for OCR. It also highlights the experimental use of text, images, and other elements by the editors and has research value.

For each of the ten journals of interest in Princeton's digital collections (DPUL), we identified the IIIF manifest URI.  Using those manifests, we downloaded each of the 24,000 document images. The `IIIF_URIs.json` file in this repository can be used to fetch the images from the Princeton Library IIIF servers.       

## Journal manifests
-  [Эрмитаж](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6b561fbb-ba28-4afb-91d2-d77b8728d7d9/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6b561fbb-ba28-4afb-91d2-d77b8728d7d9/manifest)
- [Вестник искусств](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ad256b35-9ad0-4f75-bf83-3bad1a7c6018/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ad256b35-9ad0-4f75-bf83-3bad1a7c6018/manifest)
- [Советский театр](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f33993bb-a041-40a1-b11f-f660da825583/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f33993bb-a041-40a1-b11f-f660da825583/manifest)
- [Рабис](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/01f4236f-0a2f-473c-946f-d9bbec12f8ea/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/01f4236f-0a2f-473c-946f-d9bbec12f8ea/manifest)
- [Даёшь](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e036a5da-97a8-4041-ad62-a57af44359e2/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e036a5da-97a8-4041-ad62-a57af44359e2/manifest)
- [Персимфанс](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/af43d19a-3659-4dd0-a0fc-4c74ce521ad6/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/af43d19a-3659-4dd0-a0fc-4c74ce521ad6/manifest)
- [Тридцать дней](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d2d488af-2980-4554-a9ef-aacbaf463ec8/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d2d488af-2980-4554-a9ef-aacbaf463ec8/manifest)
- [За пролетарское искусство](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/38f89d57-8e64-4033-97d6-b925c407584a/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/38f89d57-8e64-4033-97d6-b925c407584a/manifest)
- [Бригада художников](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/66d00a87-5ea9-439a-a909-95d697401a2b/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/66d00a87-5ea9-439a-a909-95d697401a2b/manifest)
- [Зрелища](https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1af8b322-a0b1-46af-8541-5c3054af8098/manifest?manifest=https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1af8b322-a0b1-46af-8541-5c3054af8098/manifest)


    
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