dsfsi/dsfsi-datasets

Official DSFSI Public Datasets Registry - Comprehensive catalog of 50+ datasets for South African & African languages. Includes speech recognition, NLP, terminology, health, legal & financial data across HuggingFace, GitHub, Zenodo & more. # DSFSI Public Datasets Registry **Official dataset registry for the Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) Research Group** **Last Updated**: December 31, 2025 This repository serves as the comprehensive catalog and registry for all publicly available datasets produced by the DSFSI research group at the University of Pretoria. Our datasets span multiple domains including Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, Public Health, Legal Documents, Financial Data, and more, with a focus on South African and African languages and contexts. ## Table of Contents - Featured Datasets - Datasets by Category - Speech & Audio - Text & NLP - Terminology & Lexicons - Legal Documents - Public Health - Financial Data - Educational Datasets - Datasets by Language - Datasets by Platform - Local Datasets - How to Use - Contributing - Citation - Contact --- ## Featured Datasets Our most popular and impactful datasets: ### 🎤 African Next Voices (ZA-ANV) **The largest publicly available multilingual speech dataset for South African languages** - **Platform**: HuggingFace - **Type**: Speech/Audio - **Size**: 3,000 hours of audio - **Languages**: 7 South African languages (isiZulu, Setswana, Sesotho sa Leboa, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiXhosa, Sesotho) - **Models**: 8 Whisper-based ASR models available - **License**: Custom (see dataset card) - **Use Cases**: Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Low-resource Language Processing ### 📚 za-mafoko: Multilingual Terminology Collection **Comprehensive multilingual terminologies and glossaries for South African languages** - **Platform**: HuggingFace Collection - **Type**: Terminology/Lexicon - **Datasets**: 9+ specialized glossaries - **Languages**: 11 South African languages - **Notable Collections**: - DSAC Terminology - StatsSA Terminology - OERTB Terminology - UP Glossary - **License**: Various (see individual datasets) - **Use Cases**: Machine Translation, Terminology Management, Multilingual NLP ### 🦠 COVID-19 …