nyuuzyou/archiveofourown

Dataset Card for Archive of Our Own (AO3)

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains approximately 12.6 million publicly available works from Archive of Our Own (AO3), a fan-created, fan-run, non-profit archive for transformative fanworks. The dataset was created by processing works with IDs from 1 to 63,200,000 that are publicly accessible. Each entry contains the full text of the work along with comprehensive metadata including title, author, fandom, relationships, characters, tags, warnings, and other classification information.

Languages

The dataset is multilingual, with works in many different languages, though English is predominant.

Dataset Structure

Data Files

The dataset is stored in compressed JSONL files (jsonl.zst format), with each archive containing 100,000 sequential IDs. For example, ao3_40500001-40600000.jsonl.zst contains works with IDs in that range.

Data Fields

This dataset includes the following fields:

• id: Unique identifier for the work (string)
• title: Title of the work (string)
• metadata: Dictionary containing:
  • Archive Warning: Content warnings for the work
  • Category: Relationship categories (e.g., F/M, M/M, F/F)
  • Characters: List of characters appearing in the work
  • Fandom: Fandom(s) the work belongs to
  • Language: Language of the work
  • Rating: Content rating (e.g., General Audiences, Teen And Up, Mature, Explicit)
  • Relationship: Specific relationship pairings featured
  • Series: Series the work belongs to, if applicable
  • author: Username of the creator
  • chapters: Chapter structure information (e.g., "1/1" for a completed one-shot)
  • completed: Whether the work is completed
  • published: Publication date
  • words: Word count
• text: Main content of the work (string)

Data Splits

All examples are in a single split.

Dataset Curators

• nyuuzyou