| # French Legal Document Vector Database | |
| ## Overview of DILA Repository Datasets | |
| This is a vector database containing four datasets from the DILA | |
| (Direction de l'Information légale et administrative) repository, which contains | |
| documents produced by various French governmental institutions. | |
| The complete repository can be accessed at: https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/ | |
| ## Dataset Descriptions | |
| ### 1. DOLE (Legislative Files) | |
| - Contains laws published since the beginning of the 12th legislature (June 2002) | |
| - Includes ordinances published since 2002 | |
| - Contains laws in preparation (bills and proposals) | |
| ### 2. CONSTIT (Constitutional Council Decisions) | |
| - Includes all decisions made by the Constitutional Council since its creation under | |
| the Constitution of October 4, 1958 | |
| - Contains: | |
| - Constitutional reviews | |
| - Electoral disputes | |
| - Appointments | |
| - Other decisions | |
| ### 3. CNIL (National Commission on Information Technology and Civil Liberties) | |
| - Contains all CNIL deliberations since 1978, including: | |
| - Opinions | |
| - Recommendations | |
| - Simplified standards | |
| - Authorizations | |
| - Since 2012: Integration of authorization decisions (data processing, medical research) | |
| ### 4. LEGI (National Legislation and Regulations) | |
| - Contains consolidated full text of national legislation and regulations, including: | |
| - Official codes | |
| - Laws | |
| - Decree-laws | |
| - Ordinances | |
| - Decrees | |
| - Selected orders | |
| ## Technical Implementation | |
| ### Data Processing | |
| - Original format: XML within a complex nested folder structure | |
| - Converted to: Parquet format with relevant metadata in separate columns | |
| - Embedding model: BGE-M3-Large | |
| - Chunk size: Approximately 350 words for RAG system compatibility | |
| - Storage: LanceDB databases for improved retrieval methods (e.g., hybrid search) | |
| - The "text" column has been vectorized and stored in LanceDB databases | |
| - The main title of each document is in the "name" column | |
| - All other columns have been preserved as metadata for each entry | |
| ### Collection-Specific Modifications | |
| #### DOLE, CONSTIT, and CNIL | |
| - "name" column content prepended to each "text" entry | |
| #### CNIL-Specific | |
| - Filtered to retain only entries with "VIGUEUR" status in etat_juridique column | |
| #### LEGI-Specific | |
| - "name" column created by concatenating "titre" and "article" fields | |
| - "name" column content prepended to each "text" entry | |
| - Filtered to retain only entries with "VIGUEUR" or "VIGUEUR_DIFF" status in etat_value column |