| # GneissWeb Annotations | |
| GneissWeb Annotations, powered by [IBM Research's GneissWeb](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14907) methodology, is a dataset of quality and category annotations applied to the Common Crawl corpus. | |
| This dataset enables precise filtering of web content across medical, educational, technology, and scientific domains, making it easier to build high-quality corpora for research projects, language models, and specialized applications. | |
| Learn more about the annotation process and methodology in our [official blog post](https://www.commoncrawl.org/blog/announcing-gneissweb-annotations). | |
| ## What's Inside | |
| GneissWeb Annotations uses the [GneissWeb bloom filter](https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/GneissWeb.bloom) made publicly available by IBM, along with IBM’s [Data Prep Kit](https://github.com/data-prep-kit/data-prep-kit) (now a Linux Foundation AI & Data project) and the GneissWeb groups’ category classifiers. | |
| - **Medical** - Health information, medical research, and clinical content | |
| - **Education** - Learning materials, academic resources, and educational platforms | |
| - **Technology** - Software documentation, technical guides, and tech industry content | |
| - **Science** - Research publications, scientific articles, and academic work | |
| You can access annotations at two levels of granularity: | |
| - **URL-level** - Individual URL classifications for precise content selection (This dataset) | |
| - **Host-level** - Aggregate statistics for entire domains, perfect for broad filtering | |
| ## Getting the Data | |
| Access the dataset through: | |
| - **Hugging Face**: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/commoncrawl/gneissweb-annotation-url-testing-v1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/commoncrawl/gneissweb-annotation-url-testing-v1) (URL) | |
| - **Hugging Face**: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/commoncrawl/gneissweb-annotation-host-testing-v1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/commoncrawl/gneissweb-annotation-host-testing-v1) (Host) | |
| - **AWS S3**: `s3://commoncrawl/projects/gneissweb-annotation-testing-v1` | |
| ## Example usage | |
| Check out the gneissweb examples in the [cc-index-annotations](https://github.com/commoncrawl/cc-index-annotations) github repository. | |
| ## Schema | |
| ### URL Index Files | |
| Granular annotations for individual URLs. | |
| | Column | Description | | |
| |--------|-------------| | |
| | `crawl` | Common Crawl archive ID (e.g., CC-MAIN-2024-10) | | |
| | `in_gneissweb` | Boolean flag for GneissWeb inclusion | | |
| | `url_surkey` | SURT-formatted URL key | | |
| | `surt_host_name` | SURT-formatted hostname | | |
| | `fetch_time` | TIMESTAMP of the page fetch | | |
| | `gneissweb_medical` | Medical content quality score | | |
| | `gneissweb_technology` | Technology content quality score | | |
| | `gneissweb_education` | Educational content quality score | | |
| | `gneissweb_science` | Scientific content quality score | | |
| ### Host Index Files | |
| Aggregated domain-level annotations for efficient filtering by source. | |
| | Column | Description | | |
| |--------|-------------| | |
| | `crawl` | Common Crawl archive ID (e.g., CC-MAIN-2024-10) | | |
| | `in_gneissweb` | Boolean flag for GneissWeb inclusion | | |
| | `surt_host_name` | SURT-formatted hostname | | |
| | `gneissweb_medical` | Medical content quality score | | |
| | `gneissweb_technology` | Technology content quality score | | |
| | `gneissweb_education` | Educational content quality score | | |
| | `gneissweb_science` | Scientific content quality score | | |
| ## Applications | |
| This dataset opens up numerous possibilities: | |
| - Train domain-specific language models with curated web data | |
| - Conduct research on content quality distribution across the web | |
| - Create filtered datasets for specific industries or use cases | |
| - Combine with other Common Crawl signals (language, TLD, etc.) for multi-dimensional filtering | |
| ## Attribution | |
| When using our data in your work, please cite the [Common Crawl Foundation](https://commoncrawl.org) and let us know, we'd love to hear from you! | |
| ## Licensing | |
| Common Crawl Foundation's standard terms and condition apply, see [Common Crawl Terms of Use](https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use) for more details. | |