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+---
+annotations_creators:
+- machine-generated
+language:
+- de
+language_creators:
+- found
+license:
+- odc-by
+multilinguality:
+- monolingual
+pretty_name: German Commons
+size_categories:
+- 100M<n<1B
+source_datasets: []
+tags:
+- german
+- commons
+- legal
+- scientific
+- cultural
+- political
+- web
+- news
+- economic
+task_categories:
+- text-generation
+task_ids:
+- language-modeling
+configs:
+- config_name: "default"
+  data_files: 'subset=*/source=*/*.parquet'
+  default: true
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+  splits:
+  - name: train
+    num_examples: 36773579
+- config_name: cultural
+  data_files:
+  - split: blbooks
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=BLBooks/*.parquet"
+  - split: dibilit
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=DiBiLit/*.parquet"
+  - split: dibiphil
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=DiBiPhil/*.parquet"
+  - split: germanpd
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=GermanPD/*.parquet"
+  - split: mosel
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=MOSEL/*.parquet"
+  - split: sbbfulltexts
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=SBB\ Fulltexts/*.parquet"
+  - split: wikisource
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=Wikisource/*.parquet"
+  - split: wikivoyage
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=Wikivoyage/*.parquet"
+  - split: wikiquote
+    path: "subset=Cultural/source=Wikiquote/*.parquet"
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+- config_name: economic
+  data_files:
+  - split: tedeutenders
+    path: "subset=Economic/source=TEDEUTenders/*.parquet"
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+- config_name: legal
+  data_files:
+  - split: bverfgaes
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Amtliche\ Entscheidungssammlung\ des\ Bundesverfassungsgerichts/*.parquet"
+  - split: bundesrecht
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Deutsches\ Bundesrecht/*.parquet"
+  - split: bag
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Entscheidungen\ des\ Bundesarbeitsgerichts/*.parquet"
+  - split: bfh
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Entscheidungen\ des\ Bundesfinanzhofs/*.parquet"
+  - split: bgh
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Entscheidungen\ des\ Bundesgerichtshofs/*.parquet"
+  - split: bgh20
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Entscheidungen\ des\ Bundesgerichtshofs\ in\ Strafsachen\ aus\ dem\ 20.\ Jahrhundert/*.parquet"
+  - split: bpatg
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Entscheidungen\ des\ Bundespatentgerichts/*.parquet"
+  - split: bverfg
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Entscheidungen\ des\ Bundesverfassungsgerichts/*.parquet"
+  - split: bverwg
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Entscheidungen\ des\ Bundesverwaltungsgerichts/*.parquet"
+  - split: eurlex
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=EurLEX/*.parquet"
+  - split: openlegaldata
+    path: "subset=Legal/source=Open\ Legal\ Data/*.parquet"
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+- config_name: news
+  data_files:
+  - split: anno
+    path: news_anno_*.parquet
+  - split: zeitungsportal
+    path: news_deutsches_zeitungsportal_*.parquet
+  - split: europeana
+    path: news_europeana_newspapers_*.parquet
+  - split: wikinews
+    path: news_wikinews_*.parquet
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+- config_name: political
+  data_files:
+  - split: btdrucksachen
+    path: "subset=Political/source=Drucksachen\ des\ Bundestages/*.parquet"
+  - split: eurovoc
+    path: "subset=Political/source=EuroVoc/*.parquet"
+  - split: germanpoliticalspeeches
+    path: "subset=Political/source=German\ Political\ Speeches/*.parquet"
+  - split: btplenarprotokolle
+    path: "subset=Political/source=Plenarprotokolle\ des\ Bundestages/*.parquet"
+  - split: reichtagsprotokolle
+    path: "subset=Political/source=Reichtagsprotokolle/*.parquet"
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+- config_name: scientific
+  data_files:
+  - split: arxiv
+    path: "subset=Scientific/source=arXiv/*.parquet"
+  - split: doab
+    path: "subset=Scientific/source=Directory\ of\ Open\ Access\ Books/*.parquet"
+  - split: polyjournal
+    path: "subset=Scientific/source=Polytechnisches\ Journal/*.parquet"
+  - split: wikibooks
+    path: "subset=Scientific/source=Wikibooks/*.parquet"
+  - split: openalex
+    path: "subset=Scientific/source=OpenAlex/*.parquet"
+  - split: wikiversity
+    path: "subset=Scientific/source=Wikiversity/*.parquet"
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+- config_name: web
+  data_files:
+  - split: onemillionposts
+    path: "subset=Web/source=One\ Million\ Posts/*.parquet"
+  - split: thestack
+    path: "subset=Web/source=The\ Stack/*.parquet"
+  - split: wikidiscussions
+    path: "subset=Web/source=Wiki\ Discussions/*.parquet"
+  - split: wikipedia
+    path: "subset=Web/source=Wikipedia/*.parquet"
+  - split: youtubecommons
+    path: "subset=Web/source=Youtube\ Commons/*.parquet"
+  features:
+  - name: id
+    dtype: string
+  - name: source
+    dtype: string
+  - name: subset
+    dtype:
+      class_label:
+        names:
+        - Cultural
+        - Economic
+        - Legal
+        - News
+        - Political
+        - Scientific
+        - Web
+  - name: text
+    dtype: string
+  - name: license
+    dtype:
+      sequence: string
+  - name: num_tokens
+    dtype: int64
+  - name: perplexity
+    dtype: float64
+  - name: ocr_score
+    dtype: int64
+---
+
+# German Commons - 154 Billion Tokens of Openly Licensed Text for German Language Models
+
+A comprehensive collection of German-language text data under open licenses for training German language models.
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+This dataset is aggregated from **41 diverse sources** and contains **154.56 billion tokens** of German text data with **35.78 million documents** spanning **7 thematic domains**:
+
+- 🌐 **Web Commons**: 19.89B tokens source from Wiki projects, online discussions, code repositories, social media posts, YouTube transcripts
+- 💬 **Political Commons**: 3.57B tokens sourced from parliamentary documents, speeches, protocols, political vocabulary
+- ⚖️ **Legal Commons**: 2.99B tokens sourced from court decisions, federal law, legal databases, EU legal documents
+- 📰 **News Commons**: 72.67B tokens sourced from historical and current newspapers archives
+- 🏦 **Economics Commons**: 0.11B tokens sourced from EU public tenders
+- 📚 **Cultural Commons**: 54.49B tokens sourced from cultural heritage collections
+- 🔬 **Scientific Commons**: 0.84B tokens sourced from scholarly papers, books, and technical journals
+
+## Dataset Features
+
+Each record contains the following fields:
+
+- **id**: Unique identifier string, as per each documents' source dataset
+- **source**: Source dataset name
+- **subset**: Thematic subset (Cultural, Legal, Political, Scientific, News, Web, Economic)
+- **text**: Main text content; deduplicated, quality filtered, with consistent formatting and encoding. Can be split at newlines to obtain paragraph text.
+- **license**: List of applicable licenses for each document, given as canonical SPDX license URL.
+- **num_tokens**: GPT-2 token count
+
+## Dataset Usage
+
+- Load the entire dataset
+
+  ```python
+  from datasets import load_dataset
+  
+  ds = load_dataset("coral-nlp/german-commons")
+  ```
+
+- Load a thematic subset
+
+  ```python
+  ds = load_dataset("coral-nlp/german-commons", "cultural")
+  ```
+
+- Load individual source datasets
+
+  ```python
+  wikipedia = load_dataset("coral-nlp/german-commons", "web", split="wikipedia")
+  ```
+
+Supported splits and constituent datasets are:
+
+| Subset       | Split Key                   | Dataset Name                                          | Docs      | Tokens         | License      | Text Type                  | Source                                                            |
+|:-------------|:----------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------|----------:|---------------:|:-------------|:---------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `web`        | `wikipedia`                 | Wikipedia                                             | 2,930,224 |  2,948,751,608 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Various                    | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/14748605)                         |
+| `web`        | `wikivoyage`                | Wikivoyage                                            |    20,370 |     42,025,478 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Travel                     | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/14748553)                         |
+| `web`        | `wikidiscussions`           | Wikipedia Discussions                                 | 8,349,076 |  1,218,210,917 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Online Discussions         | [🔗](https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/pub/wikipedia-deutsch/2024/) |
+| `web`        | `youtubecommons`            | YouTube Commons                                       | 2,809,714 | 14,478,850,964 | Various      | Video Subtitles            | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/YouTube-Commons)      |
+| `web`        | `onemillionposts`           | One Million Posts Corpus                              |   946,082 |     94,872,633 | CC-BY-4.0    | Online Discussions         | [🔗](https://ofai.github.io/million-post-corpus/)                 |
+| `web`        | `thestack`                  | The Stack (Markdown and TXT Subsets)                  |   421,466 |  1,105,173,228 | Various      | Various                    | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-dedup)     |
+| `political`  | `reichtagsprotokolle`       | Reichtagsprotokolle                                   |       522 |    703,495,637 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Parliamentary Protocols    | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/10225467)                         |
+| `political`  | `germanpoliticalspeeches`   | German Political Speeches                             |     6,678 |     29,409,655 | CC-BY-4.0    | Speech Transcripts         | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/3611246)                          |
+| `political`  | `btdrucksachen`             | Corpus der Drucksachen des Deutschen Bundestages      |     3,017 |    528,769,669 | CC0-1.0      | Parliamentary Publications | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/4643066)                          |
+| `political`  | `btplenarprotokolle`        | Corpus der Plenarprotokolle des Deutschen Bundestages |     1,833 |    316,034,708 | CC0-1.0      | Parliamentary Protocols    | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/4542662)                          |
+| `political`  | `eurovoc`                   | EuroVoc                                               |   245,838 |  1,988,111,462 | EUPL         | Parliamentary Publications | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/EuropeanParliament/Eurovoc)  |
+| `legal`      | `bundesrecht`               | Corpus des Deutschen Bundesrechts                     |     3,217 |      1,004,294 | CC0-1.0      | German Federal Laws        | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/14592346)                         |
+| `legal`      | `openlegaldata`             | OpenLegalData                                         |   249,909 |  1,915,956,613 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/schneiderai/openlegaldata)   |
+| `legal`      | `bfh`                       | Corpus der Entscheidungen des BFH                     |    10,885 |     67,791,931 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/14622341)                         |
+| `legal`      | `bgh20`                     | Entscheidungen des BGH in Strafsachen des 20. Jhd.    |    36,062 |     92,873,390 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/4540377)                          |
+| `legal`      | `bgh`                       | Corpus der Entscheidungen des BGH                     |    77,258 |    292,832,709 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/12814022)                         |
+| `legal`      | `bverfg`                    | Corpus der Entscheidungen des BVerfG                  |     8,028 |     39,503,223 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/12705674)                         |
+| `legal`      | `bpatg`                     | Corpus der Entscheidungen des BpatG                   |    30,705 |    185,099,188 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/10849977)                         |
+| `legal`      | `bverwg`                    | Corpus der Entscheidungen des BVerwG                  |    27,185 |    123,487,739 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/10809039)                         |
+| `legal`      | `bverfgaes`                 | Corpus der amtl. Entscheidungssammlung des BVerfG     |       919 |     24,427,294 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/10783177)                         |
+| `legal`      | `bag`                       | Corpus der Entscheidungen des BAG                     |     5,624 |     48,248,111 | CC0-1.0      | Court Decisions            | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/4006645)                          |
+| `legal`      | `eurlex`                    | EurLEX                                                |    64,934 |    201,263,562 | CC-BY-4.0    | European Union Laws        | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/record/5363165/)                          |
+| `news`       | `zeitungsportal`            | Deutsches Zeitungsportal                              | 8,076,164 | 43,871,094,547 | CC0-1.0      | News Articles              | [🔗](https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper)       |
+| `news`       | `europeana`                 | Europeana Newspapers                                  | 3,256,341 | 20,684,418,365 | CC0-1.0      | News Articles              | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/europeana_newspapers) |
+| `news`       | `anno`                      | ANNO                                                  | 1,910,281 |  8,103,825,248 | CC0-1.0      | News Articles              | [🔗](https://labs.onb.ac.at/en/datasets/anno/)                    |
+| `news`       | `wikinews`                  | WikiNews                                              |    23,266 |     14,222,520 | CC-BY-4.0      | News Articles              | [🔗](https://de.wikinews.org)                                   |
+| `economic`   | `tedeutenders`              | TEDEUTenders                                          |    57,214 |    110,611,112 | CC0-1.0      | Procurement Notices        | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/TEDEUTenders)         |
+| `cultural`   | `dibilit`                   | DiBiLit-Korpus                                        |     2,062 |    216,391,448 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Literature                 | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/5786725)                          |
+| `cultural`   | `dibiphil`                  | DiBiPhil-Korpus                                       |       269 |     32,151,997 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Literature                 | [🔗](https://github.com/deutschestextarchiv/DiBiPhil)             |
+| `cultural`   | `wikisource`                | Wikisource                                            |   240,689 |    347,770,430 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Various                    | [🔗](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/dewikisource/20250801/)          |
+| `cultural`   | `germanpd`                  | German-PD                                             |   123,592 | 49,333,198,231 | CC0-1.0      | Literature                 | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/German-PD)            |
+| `cultural`   | `blbooks`                   | BLBooks                                               |     3,714 |  1,012,047,216 | CC0-1.0      | Literature                 | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/blbooks-parquet)      |
+| `cultural`   | `mosel`                     | MOSEL                                                 | 3,127,203 |  3,181,917,752 | CC-BY-4.0    | Speech Transcripts         | [🔗](https://huggingface.co/datasets/FBK-MT/mosel)                |
+| `cultural`   | `sbbfulltexts`              | SBB Fulltexts                                         | 2,605,569 |    358,514,283 | CC-BY-4.0    | Literature                 | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/7716098)                          |
+| `cultural`   | `wikiquote`                 | Wikiquote                                             |     8,612 |      6,688,458 | CC-BY-4.0    | Quotes & Proverbs          | [🔗](https://de.wikiquote.org)                                    |
+| `scientific` | `wikibooks`                 | Wikibooks                                             |       346 |    180,257,799 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Educational Books          | [🔗](https://zenodo.org/records/14748586)                         |
+| `scientific` | `polyjournal`               | Digitalisierung des Polytechnischen Journals          |    27,292 |     50,434,996 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Scholarly Papers           | [🔗](https://github.com/deutschestextarchiv/dingler)              |
+| `scientific` | `doab`                      | Directory of Open Access Books                        |     1,939 |    166,920,321 | Various      | Scholarly Books            | [🔗](https://www.doabooks.org)                                    |
+| `scientific` | `arxiv`                     | arXiv                                                 |         8 |        103,478 | Various      | Scholarly Papers           | [🔗](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/Cornell-University/arxiv)    |
+| `scientific` | `openalex`                  | OpenAlex                                              |    47,733 |    413,632,648 | Various      | Educational Content        | [🔗](https://de.wikiversity.org)                                  |
+| `scientific` | `wikiversity`               | Wikiversity                                           |    16,371 |     27,802,099 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Scholarly Papers           | [🔗](https://openalex.org)                                        |
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@article{german_commons,
+  author = {Gienapp, Lukas and
+            Schröder, Christopher and
+            Schweter, Stefan and
+            Akiki, Christopher, and
+            Schlatt, Ferdinand and
+            Zimmermann, Arden and
+            Ge\^net, Phillipe and
+            Potthast, Martin},
+  title  = {German Commons -- 154 Billion Tokens of Openly Licensed Text for German Language Models},
+  year   = {2025}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+This dataset aggregation and metadata is released under ODC-BY license. Individual documents have their own specific licenses - please check the `license` field for each record.