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+# TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) Dataset Card
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+## Dataset Overview
+
+**Dataset Name:** TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) EU Tenders Dataset
+
+**Description:**
+TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the 'Supplement to the Official Journal' of the EU, dedicated to European public procurement. This dataset comprises a collection of procurement notices published by the EU, organized into Parquet files divided by year. Each file contains detailed information about public tenders, including metadata extracted from XML files.
+
+**Languages Covered:**
+- German (DEU): 63,128 documents
+- French (FRA): 25,539 documents
+- Polish (POL): 20,594 documents
+- Spanish (SPA): 15,119 documents
+- Dutch (NLD): 12,371 documents
+- Czech (CES): 11,293 documents
+- Romanian (RON): 10,285 documents
+- English (ENG): 10,231 documents
+- Swedish (SWE): 9,560 documents
+- Italian (ITA): 6,603 documents
+- Bulgarian (BUL): 6,281 documents
+- Finnish (FIN): 5,812 documents
+- Latvian (LAV): 5,160 documents
+- Danish (DAN): 3,251 documents
+- Lithuanian (LIT): 3,162 documents
+- Croatian (HR): 3,155 documents
+- Estonian (EST): 2,813 documents
+- Hungarian (HUN): 2,167 documents
+- Portuguese (POR): 2,080 documents
+- Slovenian (SLV): 1,959 documents
+- Slovak (SLK): 1,822 documents
+- Greek (ELL): 1,606 documents
+- Irish (GLE): 1 document
+- Unspecified/Empty: 57 documents
+
+**Total Number of Documents:** 224,049
+
+**Total Number of Words:** 279,556,839
+
+**Average Number of Words per Document:** 1,247.75
+
+**Total Number of Characters:** 2,125,102,547
+
+**Average Number of Characters per Document:** 9,484.99
+
+**Total Number of Rows with Empty Identifier:** 57
+
+## Dataset Structure
+
+The dataset is stored in Parquet files organized by year. Each Parquet file contains the following metadata for each document:
+
+- `filename`: Name of the original XML file.
+- `identifier`: Unique identifier for the document.
+- `date`: Publication date of the document in DD/MM/YYYY format.
+- `language`: Language of the document.
+- `url`: URL to the document on the TED website.
+- `text`: Full text content of the document.
+- `word_count`: Total number of words in the document.
+- `character_count`: Total number of characters in the document.
+
+## Usage
+
+The dataset can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to:
+
+- Analyzing public procurement trends across different European countries and languages.
+- Studying the distribution of procurement notices over time.
+- Developing natural language processing models to analyze the content of procurement notices.
+- Extracting insights related to public procurement policies and their implementation across the EU.
+
+## Source
+
+The dataset is collected from the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) platform of the European Union. TED is the official platform for publishing public procurement notices across Europe.
+
+## Dataset Citation
+
+If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as follows:
+
+```
+@dataset{TED_EU_Tenders_2024,
+  title={TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) EU Tenders Dataset},
+  author={Pleias},
+  year={2024},
+  description={Collection of EU public procurement notices from the TED platform, organized by year and language, with detailed metadata extracted from XML files.}
+}
+```
+
+**Note:** The dataset is presented and maintained by Pleias. All rights reserved.