---
license: other
license_name: all-rights-reserved
license_link: https://hcavs.gr/
language:
- el
- en
tags:
- medical
---

**Data Info:**

The HCAVS Veterinary Journal Corpus contains scientific and professional content extracted from the journal of the Hellenic Companion Animal Veterinary Society (HCAVS / Ελληνική Εταιρεία Κτηνιατρικής Ζώων Συντροφιάς).
It covers 30 journal issues across Volumes 1–15 (2012–2026), represented by 237 records, including 16 complete issue-level PDFs (kind = issue) and 221 individual articles (kind = article). 
The corpus consists primarily of Greek-language veterinary content on companion-animal medicine, while also containing English-language material, particularly article abstracts, bibliographic references, and scientific terminology.

**Dataset Structure:**

| Column | Type | Unique | Notes |
|---|---|---:|---|
| `id` | str | 237 | 16-character hash; no duplicates |
| `issue_title` | str | 30 | Journal issue title, e.g. `Τόμος N Τεύχος M – YYYY` |
| `issue_url` | str | 30 | URL of the journal issue; some URLs are percent-encoded, others use plain Greek slugs |
| `kind` | str | 2 | `article` (221 records) / `issue` (16 records) |
| `section` | str | 28 | Journal section; 58 records are empty |
| `title` | str | 235 | Title of the article or issue; 2 titles are repeated |
| `authors` | str | 219 | Author information; free text with academic degrees and affiliations mixed in; 18 records are empty |
| `label_matches_file` | bool | 1 | `True` for every row; no useful variation |
| `source` | str | 2 | Source type: `archive` (224 records) / `media-library` (13 records) |
| `pdf_url` | str | 237 | URL of the source PDF; no duplicates |
| `pdf_path` | str | 237 | Local path to the PDF, following the pattern `hcavs_pdfs/<issue>/<file>.pdf` |
| `chars` | int64 | 236 | Character count; min: 2,836; median: 5,570; max: 544,605 |
| `text` | str | 237 | Extracted textual content from the PDF |
| `word_count` | int64 | 205 | Word count; min: 379; median: 746; max: 73,395 |
| `token_count` | int64 | 218 | Token count; min: 745; median: 1,548; max: 154,583 |


**Dataset Statistics:**

Tokens:  2,306,441

Words: 1,174,363

Size: 5,7 MB

**License:**

The source content is copyrighted by HCAVS (https://hcavs.gr/). Users should consult the official terms of use before using the dataset.

**Contact:**

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