fyi-archive-nz

Dataset card for a faithful, read-only full-site archive of fyi.org.nz — the New Zealand Official Information Act (OIA) request register, running on Alaveteli.

The archive is being built incrementally. Early verified snapshots are published to Hugging Face and draft-first Zenodo deposits while the historical backfill continues. The manifest records the current snapshot size and should be treated as the source of truth for coverage at any point in time.

Source provenance

• Upstream: https://fyi.org.nz/ (public read-only endpoints only; no auth).
• Capture tool: fyi-cli (bulk enumeration + faithful WARC/WACZ capture of request metadata, rendered pages, and attachments).
• Orchestration: edithatogo/fyi-archive.

Data fields (per-request record)

field	type	description
request_id	int	fyi.org.nz numeric request id
url_title	string	canonical slug (final path segment of the request URL)
title	string	request title
authority	string	public body the request was addressed to
state	string	described state (e.g. successful, refused, waiting)
first_sent	datetime	when the request was lodged
last_updated	datetime	upstream last-modified
content_sha256	string	SHA-256 of the captured JSON payload (content address)
html_captured	bool	whether a rendered HTML snapshot exists
attachments	list	name, url, content_type, size, sha256
warc_record_ids	list	WARC record ids for this request

Loading

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

manifest_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="edithatogo/fyi-archive-nz",
    repo_type="dataset",
    filename="manifests/latest_manifest.json",
)

-- DuckDB over the Hugging Face mirror
SELECT authority, state, count(*) AS n
FROM 'hf://datasets/edithatogo/fyi-archive-nz/manifests/latest_manifest.parquet'
GROUP BY 1, 2 ORDER BY n DESC;

Intended use

Research, legal-tech NLP, journalism, and government-transparency workloads.

Limitations

• A point-in-time snapshot of a live site; the authoritative record is the live fyi.org.nz site. See NOTICE.md.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by the operators of fyi.org.nz.

Copyright & licensing

Archived content is already-published public material; the dataset asserts no new rights over it. Per-item license + attribution are recorded in the manifest where the source declares them. Government-released material is typically CC BY 4.0 under the NZGOAL framework or "no known rights"; Acts/Regulations/court decisions are outside copyright (Copyright Act 1994 s.27); Crown works otherwise attract Crown copyright (s.26, 100-year term per IPONZ). Private-author request text remains the requester's. The repository code is MIT. Full provisions and citations: docs/copyright-and-licensing.md.

Citation

@dataset{mordaunt_fyi_archive,
  author    = {Dylan Mordaunt},
  title     = {{fyi-archive: a read-only full-site archive of fyi.org.nz}},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://github.com/edithatogo/fyi-archive}
}