The Australian Women's Register (AWR)

Overview

Keywords: Australia; Women; Archive

The AWR is a product of the Australian Women’s Archives Program (AWAP) established in 1999, has long-standing collaboration between the University of Melbourne and the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW).

AWR is created to build knowledge and recognition of the social, cultural, historical and economic contribution made by Australian women to public and private life.

Data Source

The original data is from AWR Database and licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 AU.

Noticed that the original database is constantly updating. The dataset collected in this repo was last updated on 17 Aug 2024.

The dataset under AWR_clean is a cleaned version of the original dataset created by Xinyu Mao. You can download it from Hugging Face - SouthernCrossAI/AWR_Australian_Womens_Register.

Data Structure

This repo uses ids to build URLs to retrieve the .pdf resources. You may came across documents from the following aspects:

• Archived Resources
• Award
• Cultural Artefact
• Event
• Exhibition
• Organisation
• Person
• Place
• Published Resources

Under AWR directory, there are 20556 awr_[id].pdf files collected from AWR Database, where id serves as the identifier for each document.

Download

We suggest you to walk through utils/download.ipynb to explore how we build URLs to retrieve and download the PDF resources.

You can also use python3 utils/download.py to download the PDF resources:

$ python3 utils/download.py --help                                                  
usage: download.py [-h] --min_id MIN_ID --max_id MAX_ID --save_path SAVE_PATH

Download PDF resources from AWR

options:
  -h, --help            Show all help messages.
  --min_id MIN_ID       Define the start ID for the search range.
  --max_id MAX_ID       Define the end ID for the search range.
  --save_path SAVE_PATH
                        The path to save the downloaded PDF files.

License

The repo is licensed under MIT.