---
language:
- da
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
pretty_name: Lex.dk Open
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  - name: title
    dtype: string
  - name: clarification
    dtype: string
  - name: authors
    sequence: string
  - name: date
    dtype: string
  - name: license
    dtype: string
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 18335490
    num_examples: 11887
  download_size: 10050922
  dataset_size: 18335490
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
---
# Dataset Card for Lex.dk Open

## Dataset Description

- **Point of Contact:** [Dan Saattrup Nielsen](mailto:dan.nielsen@alexandra.dk)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 10.05 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 18.34 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 28.39 MB

### Dataset Summary

This dataset consists of articles from the Danish encyclopedia [Lex.dk](https://www.lex.dk). 

Only the articles released with a permissive license are included here, which constitutes about 7.5% of the total amount of articles.

### Languages

The dataset is available in Danish (`da`).

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 10.05 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 18.34 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 28.39 MB

An example from the dataset looks as follows.
```
{
 'url': 'https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Kullmanns_M%C3%B8lle',
 'title': 'Kullmanns Mølle',
 'clarification': '',
 'authors': ['https://brugere.lex.dk/6929'],
 'date': '2021-01-20T13:23:20+01:00',
 'license': 'fri anvendelse',
 'text': 'Kullmanns Mølle er en mølle i Gudhjem, opkaldt efter Matts Kullmann, der byggede møllen i 1893 til sin søn, Christian Kullmann, se Gudhjem Mølle.'
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

- `url`: a `string` feature.
- `title`: a `string` feature.
- `clarification`: a `string` feature.
- `authors`: a `list` feature.
- `authors`: a `string` feature.
- `license`: a `string` feature.
- `text`: a `string` feature.


### Dataset Statistics

There are 11,887 samples in the dataset.

#### Article Length Distribution

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/60d368a613f774189902f555/6TU-GWs59AjhbndOWgvDE.png)


## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[Dan Saattrup Nielsen](https://saattrupdan.github.io/) from the [The Alexandra
Institute](https://alexandra.dk/) built the dataset and uploaded it to the Hugging Face Hub.

### Licensing Information

The dataset is licensed under the [CC BY-SA 4.0
license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).