SheVegas/Sheboygan-Visual-Archive

Sheboygan Visual Archive

Public, machine-readable visual corpus for SheVegas — original photography and related media from Sheboygan, Wisconsin and the surrounding Midwest.

Drive remains the master vault. This Hub dataset is the public intelligence layer: approved media + structured metadata only.

License

CC BY 4.0 — attribution required.

What goes here

Approved PUBLIC assets only, after filter and editorial review:

• Lake Michigan / river / surf / power plant / storms / sunrise / dredging
• Parades and festivals
• Blue Harbor aerials
• Cross country and sports
• City / civic places
• Everyday weirdness
• Verified changed/gone places

First corpus target: 1,000–5,000 verified assets.

What does not go here

• Anything that fails the decency check (nudity, sexualization, accusations, naming people with harm)
• Anything Mike has not approved for public release (kids OK when he says so)
• Unfiltered private / family media
• RAW masters (stay in Drive; Hub gets approved public derivatives)
• AI-generated work mixed in as documentary evidence (AI work is labeled separately if published)

Publish states (registry)

State	Meaning
PUBLIC	Media + metadata may be released here
CATALOG_ONLY	Metadata may be public; media stays out
PRIVATE	Drive only
UNRESOLVED	Blocked pending provenance / rights / context

Canonical asset record (minimum fields)

asset_id, source_drive_id, source_filename, media_type, capture_date, capture_date_basis, place, place_basis, gps_public, collection, event, width, height, duration, camera, caption_michael, caption_archival, machine_caption, ocr_text, transcript, tags, people_status, rights_status, publish_state, confidence, related_asset_ids, story_ids, card_ids, sha256, derivative_of, notes

Filenames follow the SheVegas human-readable naming standard (YYYY-MM-DD Subject). Stable IDs look like SV-A-001842 and live in the registry, not in the filename.

Repo layout (as corpus grows)

README.md
manifest/
  shevegas_asset_manifest.csv
  shevegas_asset_manifest.parquet
media/
  <collection>/
    <human-readable-filename>

Media lands only after Mike approves a filtered batch. Browse: SheVegas/sheboygan-visual-archive-browser.

Related

• Account: @SheVegas
• Staging / empty placeholder: SheVegas/assets
• Site: shevegas.com

Status

Public corpus: 23 images (batches 1–2 + soft-life, 2026-10-05). Manifest at manifest/shevegas_asset_manifest.csv.

First batch captions (Mike-voice)

ID	Caption
SV-A-000001	Deland Park on a clear August day — the Rotary Promenade sign, empty sand behind it.
SV-A-000002	Clear water over the rocks just east of Deland. Lake Michigan looking soft.
SV-A-000003	North Beach between seasons — snow fence and volleyball poles, nobody on the sand.
SV-A-000004	The river basin so still the red roof and pylon sit in the water. Two ducks.
SV-A-000005	From the dock across the basin. Cream building, awnings, quiet water.
SV-A-000006	End of the pier at the harbor mouth. Just water and sky. (My shadow on the concrete.)
SV-A-000007	The old Armory on Broughton, before it came down. Empty street, flag up.
SV-A-000008	Blue Harbor and the city from the lake — the whole harbor in one frame.

Batch 2 captions (Archive Mike-voice)

ID	Caption
SV-A-000009	North Beach after a snow — the park road empty, trees white, sky clear.
SV-A-000010	The whole river basin in one breath — gazebo, still water, far bank.
SV-A-000011	From the path and blue railing — same quiet basin, nobody walking.
SV-A-000012	Breakwater rocks, open lake, Blue Harbor at the edge of the frame.
SV-A-000013	Rotary Riverview — the empty landing where a footbridge could meet the river.
SV-A-000014	Riverfront by Rotary on a clear day. Present-tense Sheboygan, empty.
SV-A-000015	Wider on the same riverfront — water, sky, and room to breathe.
SV-A-000016	Blue Harbor from above — shoreline, harbor mouth, lake light.
SV-A-000017	North of North Beach — green bluff meeting rock and open water.
SV-A-000018	Midwinter river — ice floes under a hard blue sky, shore empty.

Soft-life batch captions (Archive Mike-voice)

ID	Caption
SV-A-000019	Stacked park benches under snow — waiting for spring sitters.
SV-A-000020	Catching The Big Fish — boardwalk sign, blue rail, quiet river.
SV-A-000021	Marina boardwalk empty — Crime Watch signs, color across the water.
SV-A-000022	Snow road north of North Beach — trees heavy, sky bright, keep going.
SV-A-000023	Rotary riverfront again — present tense, room to breathe.

How to load (first batch)

Dataset: SheVegas/Sheboygan-Visual-Archive
License: CC BY 4.0 — attribute SheVegas / Michael Brunette.

Browse on the Hub

Open the dataset page → Files → media/ for images, manifest/shevegas_asset_manifest.csv for rows.

Python — manifest + images

from datasets import load_dataset
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import pandas as pd

# Manifest (structured rows)
csv_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="SheVegas/Sheboygan-Visual-Archive",
    repo_type="dataset",
    filename="manifest/shevegas_asset_manifest.csv",
)
df = pd.read_csv(csv_path)
print(df[["asset_id", "caption", "place", "date"]].head())

# One image by Hub filename
img_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="SheVegas/Sheboygan-Visual-Archive",
    repo_type="dataset",
    filename="media/2016-08-29 Deland Park Entrance.jpg",
)

Filter public rows

public = df[(df.publish_state == "PUBLIC") & (df.decency_ok == True)]

Attribution example

Photo: Michael Brunette / SheVegas — Sheboygan Visual Archive (SV-A-000001), CC BY 4.0.

CLI

hf download SheVegas/Sheboygan-Visual-Archive --repo-type dataset --local-dir ./sheboygan-visual-archive

Corpus is still small on purpose so you can learn the loop: manifest → media → load → attribute. Start anywhere in media/.