Context This dataset is an adapted version of the 'Historical collections and toys from Deventer Museums' dataset, available on Europeana Curated Datasets (https://pro.europeana.eu/data/deventer-historical-and-toy-museums). A subset of 6000 items was taken and adapted. The original dataset was provided by the Historical Museum of Deventer (https://museumdewaag.nl/) and the Deventer Toy Museum (http://www.speelgoedmuseumdeventer.nl/). This dataset and the original are available under a CC by-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The data was adapted in the context of a thesis project at the KU Leuven: Title: Exploring the use of recommendation techniques in toy museums: a proof of concept and design implications Author: Jef Scheepers Promotor: Prof. Dr. Katrien Verbert Daily Supervisor: Dr. Nyi-Nyi Htun The main goal of these adaptions was to provide the toys in the dataset with one of these eight thematic labels: - Building toys - Family games - Creative Toys - Dolls - Action Figures - Vehicles - Media - Diverse This was done by parsing the items based on their title with a python script. Lists were made with keywords for each category. If a toy had a certain keyword in its title, it would get the label of that keyword. Content ID: A unique identifier for each item. Taken from the Europeana attribute 'id'. Title: A title describing the item. Taken from the Europeana attribute 'dcTitle'. Because of unicode problems, letters with special signs had to be swapped (e.g. é becomes e, ? becomes a, …). All titles are in Dutch. Date: The year of creation of the item. Available on Europeana as ‘dcDate’ (Dublincore date). The attribute dcDate could either contain one year (1970), a period (1970-1975) or the same year twice (1970-1970). In any case, the first year was taken. Image: The url of an image of the item. Taken from the Europeana attribute 'edmPreview'. Label: The category which the item belonged to. This data was added through a python script, parsing the toys based on their title. . If the value is ‘none’, the script didn’t recognize the item as a toy, since there are also other kinds of historical and archaeological objects in the dataset.