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dacheah/space-law-corpus

Space Law Corpus A neutral, provenance-first, machine-readable record of international and national space law. Every record carries its official source, retrieval date, citation, language, an authoritative-status flag, and a SHA-256 content hash; texts are verified against official sources. Source of truth / build history: https://github.com/dacheah/space-law-corpus Archived & citable: concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21185483 (resolves to the latest Zenodo-archived GitHub release)… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/dacheah/space-law-corpus.

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Space Law Corpus

A neutral, provenance-first, machine-readable record of international and national space law. Every record carries its official source, retrieval date, citation, language, an authoritative-status flag, and a SHA-256 content hash; texts are verified against official sources.

—Source of truth / build history: https://github.com/dacheah/space-law-corpus
—Archived & citable: concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21185483 (resolves to the latest Zenodo-archived GitHub release)
—Human-browsable site: https://dacheah.github.io/space-law-corpus/
—24 instruments (24 verified against official sources) · 317 provisions · 457 neutral concept tags

Why this dataset is different

Most legal datasets are scraped text with no sourcing. Here every row is traceable: the authoritative text is stored in its authentic language with a content hash and a fidelity flag, and anything generated (concept tags, structure) is kept in a separate, clearly-labelled layer. That makes it low-risk input for retrieval-augmented generation and citation-grounded legal NLP.

Configs

`documents` — one row per instrument version: the full authoritative text plus provenance (source_url, official_citation, authoritative_status, text_fidelity, content_hash, license, rights_note, provenance_note, dates, jurisdiction, language).

`provisions` — one row per structural unit (article / section / principle / guideline): the unit text, its neutral concepts (a model pass, unreviewed), and a link back to the source instrument's text hash and URL. Ideal as pre-chunked, concept-labelled context for RAG.

python

from datasets import load_dataset
docs = load_dataset("dacheah/space-law-corpus", "documents")
prov = load_dataset("dacheah/space-law-corpus", "provisions")

Instrument	Jurisdiction	Adopted	Fidelity
French Space Operations Act (2008, consolidated)	FRA	2008-06-03	`extracted_verified`
Luxembourg Space Resources Law (2017)	LUX	2017-07-20	`extracted_verified`
US Space Resource Act (51 U.S.C. ch. 513)	USA	2015-11-25	`extracted_verified`
Resolution 1721 (XVI) A and B	international/UN	1961-12-20	`extracted_verified`
Declaration of Legal Principles	international	1963-12-13	`extracted_verified`
Direct Broadcasting Principles	international	1982-12-10	`extracted_verified`
Remote Sensing Principles	international	1986-12-03	`extracted_verified`
Nuclear Power Sources Principles	international	1992-12-14	`extracted_verified`
Benefits Declaration	international	1996-12-13	`extracted_verified`
COPUOS Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines	international	2007-06-15	`extracted_verified`
LTS Guidelines	international	2019-06-21	`extracted_verified`
Liability Convention	international	1971-11-29	`extracted_verified`
Convention sur la responsabilité (Liability Convention, French authentic text)	international	1971-11-29	`extracted_verified`
Moon Agreement	international	1979-12-05	`extracted_verified`
Accord sur la Lune (Moon Agreement, French authentic text)	international	1979-12-05	`extracted_verified`
Outer Space Treaty	international	1966-12-19	`extracted_verified`
Tratado sobre el espacio ultraterrestre (OST, Spanish authentic text)	international	1966-12-19	`extracted_verified`
Traité sur l'espace extra-atmosphérique (OST, French authentic text)	international	1966-12-19	`extracted_verified`
Договор по космосу (OST, Russian authentic text)	international	1966-12-19	`extracted_verified`
外层空间条约 (OST, Chinese authentic text)	international	1966-12-19	`extracted_verified`
Registration Convention	international	1974-11-12	`extracted_verified`
Convention sur l'immatriculation (Registration Convention, French authentic text)	international	1974-11-12	`extracted_verified`
Rescue Agreement	international	1967-12-19	`extracted_verified`
Accord sur le sauvetage (Rescue Agreement, French authentic text)	international	1967-12-19	`extracted_verified`

Licensing

Mixed, and recorded per record. The compilation, structure, and concept tags (the derived layer) are CC BY 4.0. Source texts are not relicensed — each keeps its own terms (e.g. UN-materials terms; public-domain government works), recorded in every row's license / rights_note. See the licensing policy.

Disclaimer

This is a reference record, not legal advice. The authoritative text of each instrument is the original in its authentic language; translations and concept tags are unofficial and derived (the concept tags are an unreviewed model pass — expect occasional over/under-tagging). Always confirm against the cited official source for anything legally operative.

Citation

Space Law Corpus (Daniel Cheah). https://github.com/dacheah/space-law-corpus