edithatogo/corpus-legislation-nz

New Zealand Legislation Corpus

Registry status

• Registry ID: edithatogo/corpus-legislation-nz
• Family: nz-legislation
• Repository role: canonical_dataset
• Canonical dataset: edithatogo/corpus-legislation-nz
• Operational status: active
• Rights status: source_specific_review_required
• Authoritative catalog: edithatogo/dataset-estate-registry

Origin and provenance

• Origin repository: https://github.com/edithatogo/corpus-legislation-nz
• Upstream source: Official New Zealand Legislation API.
• This card describes repository identity and relationships; it does not claim completeness beyond published manifests.

Rights boundary

Repository code, dataset compilation, and underlying source-record rights are separate. The registry currently records the rights state as source_specific_review_required. Where rights vary by record or source, downstream users must inspect the published provenance and rights fields.

Existing dataset documentation

This dataset contains machine-readable New Zealand legislation records collected through the official New Zealand Legislation API and published as Parquet shards. Coverage is not claimed to be complete.

Provenance

Records include source URLs, API URLs, format URLs, hashes, scrape timestamps, and pipeline version metadata. The repository manifests are published with the dataset and should be used to identify the exact snapshot.

Intended use and limitations

The dataset supports legal information retrieval, statutory text search, legal NLP experiments, and reproducible public-law data analysis. Text extraction is conservative and may not preserve all legal structure. Incorporated material, third-party material, agency content, logos, emblems, and linked content may have different rights. This dataset is not legal advice.

Rights and attribution

The dataset card does not relicense legislation text or third-party material. Users must follow the official New Zealand Legislation copyright terms and their institutional policies. Project-created metadata, manifests, checksums, and permitted packaging may have separate terms. Rights approval for this repository is recorded in the companion registry evidence; it is not a blanket provider acceptance claim.

Reconciliation policy

This repository is retained only while its recorded role is distinct from the canonical dataset. Renames, deletion, visibility changes, and replacement of immutable DOI snapshots require explicit human review.