Picturing Stories: A Citizen-Science Annotated Dataset of Children’s Book Illustrations
By: Andrew Piper and Robert Budac
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.592 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Page range: 132 - 132
Submitted on: May 11, 2026
Accepted on: Aug 25, 2026
Published on: Oct 12, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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