Research snapshot of official legislation collected from Parliament of Zambia / ZambiaLII. Not legal advice. Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus.
Dataset Card
Research snapshot of official legislation collected from Parliament of Zambia / ZambiaLII. 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/collectzm.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 /…
Excerpt from the card by Benjamin J Barber, licensed other.
Structure
laws 4,261 rows
| Split | Rows | Size |
|---|---|---|
| train | 4,261 | 358.9 MB |
articles 9,437 rows
| Split | Rows | Size |
|---|---|---|
| train | 9,437 | 128.8 MB |
Details
- Repository
- endomorphosis/ipfs_zambia_laws
- Publisher
- Benjamin J Barber
- Task category
- Text retrieval
- Tags
- legal, law, zambia
- Size category
- 1K<n<10K
- Languages
- en
- Revision
- 7ea20978ebef89b606deed62170ae6bb66e26d37
- Last updated
- 2026-09-20
Files
10 files, 186.1 MB in total.
Every file
| File | Type | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| data/articles.parquet | Data | 48.7 MB | 92ebdc4e99aa |
| data/laws.parquet | Data | 137.3 MB | 64784bcd589f |
| MANIFEST.md | Documentation | 195 B | — |
| README.md | Documentation | 1.8 KB | — |
| scrapers/archive_fallbacks.py | Other | 49.9 KB | — |
| scrapers/collect_zm.py | Other | 357 B | — |
| 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 | 2.5 KB | — |
License and Download
- License
- other
- Access
- No access gate
Released by Benjamin J Barber through its official repository on Hugging Face.