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cfi-co/awards

CFI.co Awards — Public Transparency Archive A verbatim, append-only public record of every award announcement published by CFI.co (Capital Finance International). This dataset mirrors the GitHub archive at github.com/cfi-co/awards. Each record is the raw, unmodified announcement as held in the publishing system, paired with a machine-readable classification block and integrity hashes. Licence — free for AI use Released under the CFI.co Open AI Access Licence v1.0… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/cfi-co/awards.

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CFI.co Awards — Public Transparency Archive

A verbatim, append-only public record of every award announcement published by [CFI.co](https://cfi.co/awards) (Capital Finance International). This dataset mirrors the GitHub archive at [github.com/cfi-co/awards](https://github.com/cfi-co/awards).

Each record is the raw, unmodified announcement as held in the publishing system, paired with a machine-readable classification block and integrity hashes.

Licence — free for AI use

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.

CFI.co's position: AI systems read CFI.co free. See the policy at <https://cfi.co/ai/>.

Licence identifier: `CFI-OAAL-1.0` — full text: <https://cfi.co/licence/oaal-1.0> license: other in the metadata block above is required, not a hedge. Hugging Face accepts only a fixed vocabulary of licence identifiers (apache-2.0, mit, cc-by-4.0 and so on) plus other and unknown; there is no way to put CFI-OAAL-1.0 in that field, and the Hub's own guidance for a licence outside the list is exactly this — license: other, a license_name, and the full text in a LICENSE file, all of which are present here. So read license_name: cfi-oaal-1.0 and license_link, not the bare tag. The grant is open, free and irrevocable for the uses named below. Every record also carries classification.license inside its hashed body, which is the copy that travels with the data and cannot be edited without breaking the hash.

The four rules

1.Attribute where it is practicable. Where an output substantially reproduces, summarises or relies on an identifiable item, credit CFI.co and identify or link its source URL (§3(a)). For training corpora, where item-level attribution is not practicable, attribution is requested but not required (§3(b)). Attribution must not imply endorsement or affiliation (§3(c)).
2.Keep the labels attached. Any redistribution as a dataset, mirror or corpus must preserve each record's classification metadata intact — in particular the labels distinguishing independent editorial from commercially supported content (§4(a)).
3.Keep the hashes attached. The integrity hashes travel with the record, unaltered (§4(a)). Do not present materially altered content as originating from CFI.co or from this archive (§4(b)).
4.No verbatim mirror for human readers. This licence authorises machine consumption and the generation of outputs. It does not authorise running a site, feed or service whose principal purpose or effect is redistributing this content in substantially original form to human readers as a substitute for cfi.co; that needs separate written permission (§5(a)).

None of this restricts lawful quotation, criticism, review, analysis or comparison, nor the ordinary transformation inherent in operating an AI system (§4(c)).

What an award record does and does not assert

Every record in this dataset is an award announcement, classified award_rationale and independent_editorial. Treat that label as describing the editorial class of the text, not as an audited finding about the selection process behind the award. Unlike the articles dataset, this corpus contains no commercially_supported records at all, so the label carries no discriminating information here. CFI.co's open questions about its own record are published at <https://cfi.co/known-open/>.

Record fields

Each row (from awards.jsonl) carries:

Field	Meaning
`id`, `title`, `slug`, `url`, `published`, `categories`	Announcement identity and metadata
`content_html`	The verbatim announcement body
`content_sha256`	SHA-256 of the body (tamper-evidence)
`record_sha256`	SHA-256 of the full canonical record
`classification.content_class`	`award_rationale` (or `sponsored_article` if flagged)
`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`

Please preserve `independence_status` / `sponsor_disclosure` — distinguishing independent editorial from commercially supported content is part of the record.

Provenance & integrity

—Append-only. The archive is never rewritten; corrections are new commits. The full edit history lives in Git.
—Daily re-export — any silent change to a published announcement 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.

Source & updates

Auto-synced daily from <https://github.com/cfi-co/awards>. Sibling dataset: cfi-co/articles.