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+# The Australian Women's Register (AWR)
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+## Overview
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+**Keywords**: Australia; Women; Archive
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+The [AWR](https://www.womenaustralia.info) is a product of the Australian Women’s Archives Program (AWAP) established in 1999, has long-standing collaboration between the University of Melbourne and the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW). 
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+AWR is created to build knowledge and recognition of the social, cultural, historical and economic contribution made by Australian women to public and private life.
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+## Data Source
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+The original data is from [AWR Database](https://www.womenaustralia.info/entries/) and licensed under [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/).
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+Noticed that the original database is constantly updating. The dataset collected in this repo was last updated on **17 Aug 2024**.
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+The dataset under `AWR_clean` is a cleaned version of the original dataset created by [Xinyu Mao](https://github.com/Xinyu990511). You can download it from [Hugging Face - SouthernCrossAI/AWR_Australian_Womens_Register](https://huggingface.co/datasets/SouthernCrossAI/AWR_Australian_Womens_Register).
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+The current data is cleaned by [Xinyu Mao](https://huggingface.co/XinyuMao). You can find more details on [GitHub](https://github.com/southern-cross-ai/AWR).
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+## License
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+The repo is licensed under [MIT](https://opensource.org/license/mit).