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Cannot get the split names for the config 'default' of the dataset.
Exception:    SplitsNotFoundError
Message:      The split names could not be parsed from the dataset config.
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 290, in _generate_tables
                  pa_table = paj.read_json(
                      io.BytesIO(batch), read_options=paj.ReadOptions(block_size=block_size)
                  )
                File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 342, in pyarrow._json.read_json
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 155, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
                  return check_status(status)
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 92, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
                  raise convert_status(status)
              pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Column(/top_departments/[]/[]) changed from string to number in row 0
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/inspect.py", line 286, in get_dataset_config_info
                  for split_generator in builder._split_generators(
                                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
                      StreamingDownloadManager(base_path=builder.base_path, download_config=download_config)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  )
                  ^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 101, in _split_generators
                  pa_table = next(iter(self._generate_tables(**splits[0].gen_kwargs, allow_full_read=False)))[1]
                             ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 304, in _generate_tables
                  batch = json_encode_fields_in_json_lines(original_batch, json_field_paths)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/utils/json.py", line 111, in json_encode_fields_in_json_lines
                  examples = [ujson_loads(line) for line in original_batch.splitlines()]
                              ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/utils/json.py", line 20, in ujson_loads
                  return pd.io.json.ujson_loads(*args, **kwargs)
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              ValueError: Expected object or value
              
              The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/split_names.py", line 66, in compute_split_names_from_streaming_response
                  for split in get_dataset_split_names(
                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
                      path=dataset,
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      config_name=config,
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                      token=hf_token,
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  )
                  ^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/inspect.py", line 340, in get_dataset_split_names
                  info = get_dataset_config_info(
                      path,
                  ...<6 lines>...
                      **config_kwargs,
                  )
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/inspect.py", line 291, in get_dataset_config_info
                  raise SplitsNotFoundError("The split names could not be parsed from the dataset config.") from err
              datasets.inspect.SplitsNotFoundError: The split names could not be parsed from the dataset config.

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UK Government Consultation Corpus

An open, structured corpus of 6,260 UK government consultations that have reached a published outcome, harvested from the GOV.UK Search and Content APIs and coded by GOV.UK's own policy-area taxonomy. A map of how government consults, who runs consultations, on what, and whether it publishes the response.

Consultations (with published outcome) 6,260
Coded by policy area 98%
Publish response documents 77%
Source GOV.UK Search API + Content API
Licence Open Government Licence v3.0

The finding

Every consultation in the corpus has a published outcome page, yet only 77% attach response documents to it. Nearly a quarter close the loop with an outcome page that carries no published response analysis. Defra, the Department for Transport and MHCLG are the most prolific consulting bodies; the busiest policy areas are the UK economy, access to the countryside, and low-carbon technologies and energy.

What this is for

This is a corpus frame: the structured index over which consultation analysis, response-coding or automated-summarisation work can be scoped and sampled. It captures each consultation's title, dates, department, policy-area coding, and whether response documents were published, but not the response texts themselves (which remain on the linked GOV.UK pages). It is the map, built so the territory can be worked systematically rather than one consultation at a time.

Files

  • data/corpus_summary.json — response rates, department, policy-area and year breakdowns
  • data/consultations.csv — one row per consultation with coding and outcome flags
  • data/consultations_detail.jsonl — full records
  • scripts/harvest.py, scripts/build_corpus.py

Reproduce

python3 scripts/harvest.py       # GOV.UK Search + Content APIs
python3 scripts/build_corpus.py

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Independent, self-initiated open research by Tesseract Academy.

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