Dataset · Text retrieval

ipfs_laos_laws

by Benjamin J Barber endomorphosis/ipfs_laos_laws

Research snapshot of official legislation collected from Lao Official Gazette. Not legal advice. Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus.

Rows36,340

Configurations2

Size154.3 MB

Licenseother

AccessPublicly accessible

Monthly Downloads1.7k

Dataset Card

Research snapshot of official legislation collected from Lao Official Gazette. Not legal advice. Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus. - data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument (id, title, full text, dates, status, identifiers, article count, source URL). - data/articles.parquet — one row per article/section (lawid, article number, title, text, source URL). - scrapers/collectla.py — research collector used to build this snapshot. - scrapers/common.py — shared collector helpers. - scrapers/worldlib.py — shared fetch (live official URL, Wayback fallback). - scrapers/archivefallbacks.py — Wayback / Common Crawl CDX helpers. Official government / gazette texts…

Excerpt from the card by Benjamin J Barber, licensed other.

Structure

laws 4,391 rows

Split	Rows	Size
train	4,391	281.6 MB

idlarge_stringtitlelarge_stringtextlarge_stringsource_urllarge_stringsource_typelarge_stringjurisdictionlarge_stringcountrylarge_stringlanguagelarge_stringelinulldatenulldate_issuednullretrieved_atlarge_stringlicenselarge_stringlaw_statuslarge_stringidentifierlarge_stringofficial_identifierlarge_stringarticle_countint64json_pathlarge_stringmetadata_jsonlarge_string

articles 31,949 rows

Split	Rows	Size
train	31,949	47.3 MB

law_idlarge_stringidlarge_stringtitlelarge_stringtextlarge_stringsource_urllarge_stringdocument_numberlarge_stringarticle_numberlarge_stringrecord_typelarge_stringmetadata_jsonlarge_string

Details

Repository: endomorphosis/ipfs_laos_laws
Publisher: Benjamin J Barber
Task category: Text retrieval
Tags: legal, law, laos
Size category: 1K<n<10K
Languages: lo
Revision: 18b64ea600c664c2ba7ccc640476ed4f656a3910
Last updated: 2026-09-20

Files

11 files, 154.3 MB in total.

Data2 files · 99.3 MB

Documentation2 files · 1.9 KB

Other6 files · 55.0 MB

Repository1 file · 2.6 KB

Every file

File	Type	Size	SHA-256
data/articles.parquet	Data	15.2 MB	89bf6acbc2f5
data/laws.parquet	Data	84.1 MB	f23d57ef3d51
MANIFEST.md	Documentation	195 B	—
README.md	Documentation	1.7 KB	—
data/laws.parquet.bak_tip25e	Other	54.9 MB	d8d157f5efe1
scrapers/archive_fallbacks.py	Other	49.9 KB	—
scrapers/collect_la.py	Other	4.7 KB	—
scrapers/common.py	Other	15.8 KB	—
scrapers/pdf_extract_lib.py	Other	13.4 KB	—
scrapers/world_lib.py	Other	17.2 KB	—
.gitattributes	Repository	2.6 KB	—

License and Download

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