🇫🇷 Service-Public.fr practical sheets dataset (Administrative Procedures)

This dataset is derived from the official Service-Public.fr platform and contains practical information sheets and resources targeting both individuals (Particuliers) and entrepreneurs (Entreprendre). The purpose of these sheets is to provide information on administrative procedures relating to a number of themes. The data is publicly available on data.gouv.fr and has been processed and chunked for optimized semantic retrieval and large-scale embedding use.

The dataset provides semantic-ready, structured and chunked data of official content related to employment, labor law and administrative procedures. These chunks have been vectorized using the BAAI/bge-m3 embedding model to enable semantic search and retrieval tasks.

Each record represents a semantically coherent text fragment (chunk) from an original sheet, enriched with metadata and a precomputed embedding vector suitable for search and retrieval applications (e.g., RAG pipelines).

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🗂️ Dataset Contents

The dataset is provided in Parquet format and includes the following columns:

Column Name	Type	Description
chunk_id	str	Unique generated and encoded hash of each chunk.
doc_id	str	Document identifier from the source site.
chunk_index	int	Index of the chunk within its original document. Starting from 1.
chunk_xxh64	str	XXH64 hash of the chunk_text value.
audience	str	Target audience: Particuliers and/or Professionnels.
theme	str	Thematic categories (e.g., Famille - Scolarité, Travail - Formation).
title	str	Title of the article.
surtitre	str	Higher-lever theme of article structure.
source	str	Dataset source label. (always "service-public" in this dataset).
introduction	str	Introductory paragraph of the article.
url	str	URL of the original article.
related_questions	list[dict]	List of related questions, including their sid and URLs.
web_services	list[dict]	Associated web services (if any).
context	list[str]	Section names related to the chunk.
text	str	Textual content extracted and chunked from a section of the article.
chunk_text	str	Formated text including title, context, introduction and text values. Used for embedding.
embeddings_bge-m3	str	Embedding vector of chunk_text using BAAI/bge-m3 (length of 1024), stored as JSON array string

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🛠️ Data Processing Methodology

1. 📥 Field Extraction

The following fields were extracted and/or transformed from the original XML files:

• Basic fields: doc_id, theme, title,surtitre, introduction, url, related_questions, web_services are directly extracted from the XML files, with some processing when needed.
• Generated fields:
  • chunk_id: is an unique generated and encoded hash for each chunk.
  • chunk_index: is the index of the chunk of a same document. Each document has an unique doc_id.
  • chunk_xxh64: is the xxh64 hash of the chunk_text value. It is useful to determine if the chunk_text value has changed from a version to another.
  • source: is always "service-public" here.
• Textual fields:
  • context: Optional contextual hierarchy (e.g., nested sections).
  • text: Textual content of the article chunk. This is the value which corresponds to a semantically coherent fragment of textual content extracted from the XML document structure for a same sid.

Column source is a fixed variable here because this dataset was built at the same time as the Travail Emploi Dataset. Both datasets were intended to be grouped together in a single vector collection, they then have differents source values.

2. ✂️ Generation of 'chunk_text'

The value includes the title and introduction of the article, the context values of the chunk and the textual content chunk text. This strategy is designed to improve semantic search for document search use cases on administrative procedures.

The Langchain's RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter function was used to make these chunks (text value). The parameters used are :

• chunk_size = 1500 (in order to maximize the compability of most LLMs context windows)
• chunk_overlap = 200
• length_function = len

3. 🧠 Embeddings Generation

Each chunk_text was embedded using the BAAI/bge-m3 model. The resulting embedding vector is stored in the embeddings_bge-m3 column as a string, but can easily be parsed back into a list[float] or NumPy array.

📌 Embedding Use Notice

⚠️ The embeddings_bge-m3 column is stored as a stringified list of floats (e.g., "[-0.03062629,-0.017049594,...]"). To use it as a vector, you need to parse it into a list of floats or NumPy array. For example, if you want to load the dataset into a dataframe by using the datasets library:

import pandas as pd
import json
from datasets import load_dataset
# The Pyarrow library must be installed in your Python environment for this example. By doing => pip install pyarrow

dataset = load_dataset("AgentPublic/service-public")
df = pd.DataFrame(dataset['train'])
df["embeddings_bge-m3"] = df["embeddings_bge-m3"].apply(json.loads)

Otherwise, if you have already downloaded all parquet files from the data/service-public-latest/ folder :

import pandas as pd
import json
# The Pyarrow library must be installed in your Python environment for this example. By doing => pip install pyarrow

df = pd.read_parquet(path="service-public-latest/") # Assuming that all parquet files are located into this folder
df["embeddings_bge-m3"] = df["embeddings_bge-m3"].apply(json.loads)

You can then use the dataframe as you wish, such as by inserting the data from the dataframe into the vector database of your choice.

🐱 GitHub repository :

The project MediaTech is open source ! You are free to contribute or see the complete code used to build the dataset by checking the GitHub repository

📚 Source & License

🔗 Source :

• Service-Public.fr official website
• Data.Gouv.fr : Fiches pratiques et ressources de Service-Public.fr Particuliers
• Data.Gouv.fr : Fiches pratiques et ressources Entreprendre - Service-Public.fr

📄 Licence :

Open License (Etalab) — This dataset is publicly available and can be reused under the conditions of the Etalab open license.