{"id":33873,"date":"2025-05-14T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/d-b-cooper-fbi-files-text-dataset-on-hugging-face\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:27:11","slug":"d-b-cooper-fbi-files-text-dataset-on-hugging-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/d-b-cooper-fbi-files-text-dataset-on-hugging-face\/","title":{"rendered":"D.B. Cooper FBI Files Text Dataset On Hugging Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>This dataset contains extracted text from the FBI&#8217;s case files on the infamous &#8220;DB Cooper&#8221; skyjacking (NORJAK investigation). <a href=\"https:\/\/vault.fbi.gov\/D-B-Cooper%20\">The files are sourced from the FBI<\/a> and are provided here for open research and analysis.<\/p>\n<h1>Dataset Details<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source:<\/strong> FBI NORJAK (D.B. Cooper) case files, as released and processed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/noops888\/db-cooper-files-text\">db-cooper-files-text project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Each entry contains a chunk of extracted text, the source page, and file metadata.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rows:<\/strong> 44,138<\/li>\n<li><strong>Size:<\/strong> ~63.7 MB (raw); ~26.8 MB (Parquet)<\/li>\n<li><strong>License:<\/strong> Public domain (U.S. government work); see original repository for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Motivation<\/h1>\n<p>This dataset was created to facilitate research and exploration of one of the most famous unsolved cases in U.S. criminal history. It enables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Question answering and information retrieval over the DB Cooper files.<\/li>\n<li>Text mining, entity extraction, and timeline reconstruction.<\/li>\n<li>Comparative analysis with other historical FBI files (e.g., the JFK assassination records).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Data Structure<\/h1>\n<p>Each row in the dataset contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>id<\/code>: Unique identifier for the text chunk.<\/li>\n<li><code>content<\/code>: Raw extracted text from the FBI file.<\/li>\n<li><code>sourcepage<\/code>: Reference to the original file and page.<\/li>\n<li><code>sourcefile<\/code>: Name of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/noops888\/db-cooper-files-text\/tree\/main\/download_script\/pdfs\">the original PDF file.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<pre><code>{ \"id\": \"file-cooper_d_b_part042_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034322E706466-page-5\", \"content\": \"The Seattle Office advised the Bureau by airtel dated 5\/16\/78 that approximately 80 partial latent prints were obtained from the NORJAK aircraft...\", \"sourcepage\": \"cooper_d_b_part042.pdf#page=4\", \"sourcefile\": \"cooper_d_b_part042.pdf\" } <\/code><\/pre>\n<h1>Usage<\/h1>\n<p>This dataset is suitable for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Question answering<\/strong>: Retrieve answers to questions about the DB Cooper case directly from primary sources.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Information retrieval<\/strong>: Build search engines or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Named entity recognition<\/strong>: Extract people, places, dates, and organizations from FBI documents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Historical research<\/strong>: Analyze investigation methods, suspects, and case developments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Task Categories<\/h1>\n<p>Besides &#8220;question answering&#8221;, this dataset is well-suited for the following task categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Information Retrieval<\/strong>: Document and passage retrieval from large corpora of unstructured text.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Named Entity Recognition (NER)<\/strong>: Identifying people, places, organizations, and other entities in historical documents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summarization<\/strong>: Generating summaries of lengthy case files or investigative reports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Document Classification<\/strong>: Categorizing documents by topic, date, or investigative lead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Timeline Extraction<\/strong>: Building chronological event sequences from investigative records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Acknowledgments<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>FBI for releasing the NORJAK case files.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/brass_monkey888\"> \/u\/brass_monkey888 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/datasets\/mysocratesnote\/db-cooper-text\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1kmek85\/db_cooper_fbi_files_text_dataset_on_hugging_face\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-33873 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='33873' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-33873 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-33873 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dataset contains extracted text from the FBI&#8217;s case files on the infamous &#8220;DB Cooper&#8221; 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