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MasakhaNEWS (Herero subset)

Herero(her)TextClassificationCentral Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Herero (her)

Modality

Text

Domain

News

Size

1K<n<10K

Institution

Masakhane Research Foundation

Last Updated

7 Mar 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

30 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (24/27)

iso code: her
Dataset name: MasakhaNEWS (Herero subset)
Modality: Text
Type: dataset
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhanews
NLP Task: Classification
Domain: News
Data Format: csvderivedHugging Face card: file formats
Size Metric: Articles
Size Value: 1K<n<10KderivedHugging Face card: size_categories
License: CC-BY-4.0
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: Hugging Face
Year Published: 2024
Creator/Author(s): Masakhane Research Foundation
Funder/Partner: Masakhane
Dialect Coverage: Mixed
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Human
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: Yes
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Ronke
Date Indexed: 2026-03-07
Notes / Flags: Verify that ISO her is explicitly included in the released corpus before ingestion.

Quality (DQI) (5/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed: Not stated
SPDX License ID: CC-BY-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?: Yes
Content Hash: fa3b5fff8a91d187bf0c5900a39c4271d08cf7federivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By: Not stated
Fetch Date: 2026-03-07
Last Updated Date: 2025-12-03derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?: Not stated
IAA Score: Not stated
Cleaning Notes: Not stated
Benchmark Exists?: Not stated
Benchmark Citation: Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (1/7)

Gender Distribution: Not stated
Region Coverage: Not stated
Region Distribution: Not stated
Age Range Coverage: Not stated
Register: Not stated
Marginalized Group Note: Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count: 0

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5

Data Coverage100%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation85%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhanews

Fetch Timestamp

7 Mar 2026

Content Hash

fa3b5fff8a91d187bf0c5900a39c4271d08cf7fe

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

7 Mar 2026

Source status: Active

7 Mar 2026

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