Datasets:
| license: cc0-1.0 | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| pretty_name: Main Street Independent Corpus | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-generation | |
| - text-classification | |
| - summarization | |
| tags: | |
| - news | |
| - journalism | |
| - ai-generated | |
| - cc0 | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 10K<n<100K | |
| configs: | |
| - config_name: default | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: news | |
| path: articles.jsonl | |
| - split: opinion | |
| path: columns.jsonl | |
| # Main Street Independent Corpus | |
| The complete [Main Street Independent](https://mainstreetindependent.com) archive as open data: **17,863 news articles** and **3,297 opinion columns**, each with full text and metadata. AI-generated news and opinion, dedicated to the public domain under **CC0** — no rights reserved. Refreshed daily. | |
| ## Load it | |
| ```python | |
| from datasets import load_dataset | |
| ds = load_dataset("golfplan18/msi-corpus") # 'news' and 'opinion' splits | |
| print(ds["news"][0]["headline"], ds["news"][0]["text"][:200]) | |
| ``` | |
| ## Fields | |
| `slug`, `url`, `headline`, `publish_date`, `section`, `primary_entities`, `primary_themes`, `topic_tags`, `license`, `text` (and `pen_name` for opinion columns). | |
| ## Also available | |
| - Bulk Markdown + richer JSONL indexes (atomic claims, sources): https://github.com/Golfplan18/msi-corpus | |
| - Natural-language search + MCP endpoint: https://mainstreetindependent.com/data | |
| ## License | |
| [CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Public domain — use freely, no attribution required. | |