Source PDFs for "Declassified transcripts from Norway's Extended Foreign Affairs Committee 1924–1992"

This archive contains 646 PDFs with transcripts from meetings in the Norwegian Parliament's Extended Foreign Affairs Committee (EFAC) between 1924 and 1992. The documents were downloaded from the website of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) on 3 January 2026 and form the source collection for the processed dataset "Declassified transcripts from Norway's Extended Foreign Affairs Committee 1924–1992".

Files

• efac_pdfs.zip: the source PDF collection, preserving the filenames used in the dataset’s documents.csv.
• manifest.csv: one row per PDF, with filename, archive_path (path within the ZIP), meeting_id, date (YYYY-MM-DD), url (original Stortinget download URL), size_bytes (uncompressed PDF size), and sha256 (checksum of the PDF, not the ZIP).
• README.md: this overview.

Extract efac_pdfs.zip into an empty directory; the PDFs will appear in a pdf/ subdirectory. The manifest’s archive_path identifies each file as pdf/<filename>. Join the manifest to the processed dataset’s documents.csv using filename; use meeting_id to link to meeting-level data. Two meetings each have two PDFs, so meeting_id is not unique in the manifest.

Scope and modifications

The collection excludes two background attachments that were not meeting transcripts. The file 1990_0822-ss.-401-616_sladda_.pdf was cropped to its first 49 pages to retain only the first meeting; the remaining meetings are represented in other PDFs. Its original download URL points to the uncropped source. Otherwise, the PDFs were retained as downloaded, as described in the dataset methodology.

Provenance and reuse

Original source: Stortinget’s declassified documents archive. Original per-document URLs are provided in the manifest.

The Norwegian Parliamentary Archive authorised redistribution of these PDFs on Zenodo subject to non-commercial use (email from Senior Advisor Odd Harald Kvammen, 24 August 2026).

When using these materials, acknowledge Stortinget.no as the original source and cite the PDF archive’s Zenodo record. Cite the processed dataset separately when using its text or metadata.