Scripts for analysing British Museum Collections
The data is collected from the online collection of British Museum.
The search criteria is the following:
- Place: Egypt
- Production date: 700 BC - 330 BC
It yielded 15.104 items. Some of those items are determined to be duplicated by pd.DataFrame.
The elimination gave us the csv file, dully named as EgyptBritishMuseum-2021-03-05CSVUnique.csv.
The date 2021-03-05 is the date of retrieval of the data.
You'll notice that some items have very vague production dates (5th C to 5 AD, etc), or completely
off the chart, like 980BC-780BC etc, I have no idea why.
I have added a very simple script that scrapes images from the given links in csv file as well.
You just need to create a images folder under the data. Beware that the ssl verification is set to False in requests.
Feel free to correct it if you are really concerned about it.
- pandas
- requests
- opencv
- scikit-learn