The Forbin Dataset

A collection of historical photographs enriched with archival metadata and semantic annotations

Portrait stylisé de Victor Forbin

Explore the Forbin Dataset — a curated collection of heritage photographs and documents, combining digitized facsimiles, historical context, and fine-grained annotations.

This collection brings together images from the archives of the French explorer and writer Victor Forbin (1868–1947), enhanced with semantic structures following the COCO Segmentation format for scientific reuse.

  
@article{Chelali2026_forbin,
 author = {Chelali, Mohamed and Gosselet, Sylvain-Karl 
  and Cloppet, Florence and Kurtz, Camille and Bloch, Isabelle and Foliard, Daniel},
 doi = {10.5334/johd.487},
 journal = {Journal of Open Humanities Data},
 title = {The FORBIN Dataset: A Collection of Historical Photographs With Archival Metadata},
 year = {2026}
}

        
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