| --- |
| license: other |
| license_name: cfi-oaal-1.0 |
| license_link: https://cfi.co/licence/oaal-1.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: CFI.co Articles — Public Transparency Archive |
| tags: |
| - journalism |
| - finance |
| - sustainability |
| - transparency |
| - provenance |
| - news |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: articles.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # CFI.co Articles — Public Transparency Archive |
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| A verbatim, append-only public record of every article published on **[CFI.co](https://cfi.co)** (Capital Finance International), a London-based financial-journalism publication. This dataset mirrors the GitHub archive at **[github.com/cfi-co/articles](https://github.com/cfi-co/articles)**. |
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| Each record is the raw, unmodified article as held in the publishing system — no reformatting or re-rendering — paired with a machine-readable classification block and integrity hashes. |
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| ## Licence — free for AI use |
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| Released under the **[CFI.co Open AI Access Licence v1.0](https://cfi.co/licence/oaal-1.0)** (`CFI-OAAL-1.0`): a free, worldwide grant to use this content for **AI training, retrieval, grounding, indexing, summarisation and citation**. No deal, registration or payment is required. Attribution to CFI.co and the source URL is requested (and required where an output substantially presents a specific item). **The independence/sponsorship labels and integrity hashes must stay attached when records are redistributed.** |
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| CFI.co's position: *AI systems read CFI.co free.* See the policy at <https://cfi.co/ai/>. |
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| ## Record fields |
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| Each row (from `articles.jsonl`) carries: |
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| | Field | Meaning | |
| |---|---| |
| | `id`, `title`, `slug`, `url`, `published`, `categories` | Article identity and metadata | |
| | `content_html` | The verbatim article body | |
| | `content_sha256` | SHA-256 of the article body (tamper-evidence) | |
| | `record_sha256` | SHA-256 of the full canonical record | |
| | `classification.content_class` | `editorial_analysis` · `interview` · `opinion_column` · `review` · `sponsored_article` | |
| | `classification.independence_status` | `independent_editorial` · `commercially_supported` | |
| | `classification.sponsor_disclosure` / `sponsor_name` | Sponsorship disclosure (visible + machine-readable) | |
| | `classification.correction_status` / `archive_policy` | `none`/`revised`; `no_delete` (append-only) | |
| | `classification.wayback_status` (+ snapshot ts/url) | Independent Internet Archive corroboration | |
| | `classification.license` | `CFI-OAAL-1.0` | |
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| **Please preserve `independence_status` / `sponsor_disclosure`** — distinguishing independent editorial from commercially supported content is part of the record. |
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| ## Provenance & integrity |
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| - **Append-only.** The archive is never rewritten; corrections are new commits. The full edit history lives in Git. |
| - **Daily re-export** from the live site — any silent change to a published article surfaces as a dated, public diff. |
| - **Verifiable.** `MANIFEST.sha256` + a committed `scripts/verify.sh` in the GitHub repo let anyone recompute every hash. An independent mirror and a Software Heritage snapshot exist alongside GitHub. |
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| ## Source & updates |
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| Auto-synced daily from <https://github.com/cfi-co/articles>. Canonical human-readable copies live at cfi.co; each record links its source `url`. |
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