# piskvorky/gensim-data architecture

> Architecture diagram of the GitHub repository piskvorky/gensim-data, generated by GitDiagram from its file tree, README and a sample of source files (last updated 2026-09-27). It is an AI-made overview: check details against the source.

- Interactive diagram: https://gitdiagram.com/piskvorky/gensim-data
- Repository: https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim-data

## Overview

Gensim-data is a durable catalog and distribution store for unstructured-text corpora and pretrained models. The documented workflow is that a user requests information or a named resource through Gensim’s downloader; it uses repository metadata to discover resources and retrieves immutable release attachments, which the downloader can return as a local path or open as a corpus/model. README documents datasets, models, release notes/examples, and per-dataset licensing. Runtime downloader implementation is outside this repository, so the interaction edges reflect the README rather than inspected downloader source.

Main entry points: [`list.json`](https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim-data/blob/master/list.json) (Resource metadata)

## Diagram (Mermaid)

```mermaid
flowchart TD

subgraph group_catalog["Resource catalog"]
  node_metadata["Resource metadata<br/>[list.json]"]
  node_readme["Usage and catalog guide<br/>[README.md]"]
end

subgraph group_storage["Release storage"]
  node_releases[("GitHub release attachments")]
end

node_user(("Gensim user"))
node_downloader["Gensim downloader"]
node_result["Local corpus or model"]

node_user -->|"requests resource"| node_downloader
node_downloader -->|"reads catalog"| node_metadata
node_downloader -->|"downloads attachment"| node_releases
node_releases -->|"serves asset"| node_downloader
node_downloader -->|"returns or opens"| node_result

click node_metadata "https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim-data/blob/master/list.json"
click node_readme "https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim-data/blob/master/README.md"

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class node_metadata,node_readme,node_user toneBlue
class node_releases toneAmber
class node_downloader,node_result toneIndigo
```

## Components

### Resource catalog

- [Resource metadata](https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim-data/blob/master/list.json): `list.json`
- [Usage and catalog guide](https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim-data/blob/master/README.md): `README.md`

### Release storage

- **GitHub release attachments**

### Other components

- **Gensim user**
- **Gensim downloader**
- **Local corpus or model**

## Connections

- Gensim user → Gensim downloader: requests resource
- Gensim downloader → Resource metadata: reads catalog
- Gensim downloader → GitHub release attachments: downloads attachment
- GitHub release attachments → Gensim downloader: serves asset
- Gensim downloader → Local corpus or model: returns or opens