nwokikeonyeka/ukpuru_blog_dataset

Ukpuru Blog Dataset (Raw)

This dataset is a curated, raw-text-and-image collection scraped from the Ukpuru Blog (https://blog.ukpuru.org). Founded by Chiadikobi Nwaubani, the blog serves as a vital secondary source and digital museum for "Antique images and videos of Alaigbo/Ala Igbo (Igboland)" and neighboring regions, focusing on pre-1940s cultural history.

This dataset is intended for research, educational, and AI development purposes, preserving these cultural "footprints" (the meaning of Ụ́kpụ́rụ́).

💾 Dataset Structure

The dataset is in .jsonl format, with a corresponding /images folder. Each line in data.jsonl corresponds to a single scraped blog post and follows this schema (schema_v1):

{
  "id": "string",
  "source_name": "Ukpuru Blog",
  "source_type": "secondary",
  "original_url": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "raw_content": "string",
  "images": [
    {
      "file_name": "string",
      "original_url": "string",
      "raw_caption": "string|null",
      "width": "int",
      "height": "int",
      "file_size_bytes": "int"
    }
  ],
  "tags_scraped": ["string"],
  "license_info": "© blog.ukpuru.org (Content) | CC-BY-SA-4.0 (Dataset Structure)",
  "timestamp_scraped": "string",
  "source_specific_metadata": {
      "source_id": "ukpuru",
      "wp_post_id": "string|int"
  }
}

⚠️ License and Legal Information

This dataset contains copyrighted material.

• Content License: The copyright for all blog posts, text, and curated images belongs to the original publisher, blog.ukpuru.org. All items include an original_url field pointing to the original material.
• Dataset License: The structure of this dataset (i.e., our JSON schema and the collection itself) is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0) license.
• User Responsibility: Any user of this dataset must provide proper attribution to the original source (blog.ukpuru.org) and adhere to its copyright terms.

Citing This Dataset

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it as:

@dataset{nwokike_ukpuru_blog_dataset_2025,
  author    = {Nwokike, Onyeka},
  title     = {Ukpuru Blog Dataset},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  version   = {1.0},
  url       = "[https://huggingface.co/datasets/nwokikeonyeka/ukpuru_blog_dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nwokikeonyeka/ukpuru_blog_dataset)"
}