---
pretty_name: Lex.dk Open
language:
  - da
license: other
license_name: disputed CC-BY-SA 4.0
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - fill-mask
task_ids:
  - language-modeling
source_datasets:
  - alexandrainst/lexdk-open
domains:
  - Encyclopedic
---

# Dataset Card for Lex.dk Open

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Articles from [lex.dk](https://lex.dk). 
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**NOTE:** This dataset been taken down due to concerns about licensing. See [license information](#license-information).

Lex.dk is a Danish online encyclopedia platform providing access to reliable and authoritative knowledge on a wide range of topics. It is created and curated by experts, ensuring high-quality, accurate content. The platform serves as a central hub for general and specialized information in Danish, making it a valuable resource for education, research, and general learning.




## Dataset Description

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- **Language**: dan, dansk, Danish
- **Number of samples**: 11.89K
- **Number of tokens (Llama 3)**: 5.69M
- **Average document length (characters)**: 1405.64
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## Dataset Structure
An example from the dataset looks as follows.

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```py
{
  "text": "Oluf Høst Museet\n\npubliceret: 2014-04-23 03:42:33+02:00\nOluf Høst Museet, kunstmuseum i Gudhjem, Bor[...]",
  "source": "lexdk",
  "id": "https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Oluf_H%C3%B8st_Museet",
  "added": "2025-01-04",
  "created": "2014-04-23, 2014-04-23",
  "license": "cc-by-sa-4.0",
  "metadata": {
    "source-pretty": "Lex.dk"
  }
}
```

### Data Fields

An entry in the dataset consists of the following fields:

- `text`(`str`): The content of the document.
- `source` (`str`): The source of the document (see [Source Data](#source-data)).
- `id` (`str`): An unique identifier for each document.
- `added` (`str`): An date for when the document was added to this collection.
- `created` (`str`): An date range for when the document was originally created.
- `license` (`str`): The license of the document. The licenses vary according to the source. 
- `domain` (`str`): The domain of the source
- `metadata/source-pretty` (`str`): The long form version of the short-form source name
- `metadata/*`: Potentially additional metadata
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### Dataset Statistics

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<img src="./images/dist_document_length.png" width="600" style="margin-right: 10px;" />
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## License Information

The articles here are derived from lex.dk and only include articles with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 licens as defined in the articles. 
See [this article](https://lex.dk/Oluf_Høst_Museet) for an example. However we recently discovered the following subsection in their [licensing](https://lex.dk/.licenses/free):

> Licensen gælder for de enkelte artikeltekster. Du finder information om licens i bunden af alle artikler på lex.dk. Licensen gælder ikke for hele værker, som fx Den Store Danske Encyklopædi eller Trap Danmark. **Du må altså ikke downloade og genbruge alle artikler med fri licens, fordi dette vil være en gengivelse af en stor del af et værk.**

We are currently examining to what extent it is possible to share this work and until further clarification have chosen to take it down.


## Additional Information

### Citation Information

This dataset is derived from the publicly availabe dataset [alexandrainst/lexdk-open](https://huggingface.co/datasets/alexandrainst/lexdk-open).