Hugging Face dataset cards

Dataset card template: the Hugging Face card as its docs describe it

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On the Hugging Face Hub a dataset card is a file in the repo, and the Hub's docs point to a template for the part a person reads.

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The text the card answers to

California AB 2013 and the EU AI Act Article 53(1)(d) training-content summary

  1. Section: sources

    AB 2013 item (1) asks for the sources or owners of the datasets

  2. Section: personal information

    Open: find out before publishing, since AB 2013 and the Data Cards Playbook both ask

  3. Section: EU training-content summary

    Follow the AI Office template, which the Commission calls a common minimal baseline for the public summary

  4. Format of the card

    A README.md in the dataset repo, rendered as the card, with a YAML metadata section

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The card is the README

"A dataset repo will render its README.md as a dataset card", the Hub's docs say, and "to control how the Hub displays the card, you should create a YAML section in the README file to define some metadata."

Source: Hugging Face Hub docs: dataset cards, read for the data card generator

For the human-readable part of the card, the hub-docs repository points to a template file, datasetcard_template.md. That template is not among the texts on our board, so this page does not say what its sections are.

Source: Hugging Face hub-docs datasetcard.md on GitHub, read for the data card generator

Provenance and personal data, in the texts we read

The Hugging Face texts we read do not address where the data came from or whether it holds personal data. 4 of the 6 standards on our board ask the first and 2 ask the second, so the outline on our home page sets a sources line and a personal-information line beside the format you pick.

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Sources

This site's own dataset, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

  1. European Union (official text)
  2. Croissant Format Specification | Croissant site
  3. European Union (official text)
  4. [2204.01075] Data Cards: Purposeful and Transparent Dataset Documentation for Responsible
  5. The Data Cards Playbook - Data Cards Playbook
  6. NIST AI RMF
  7. Croissant - MLCommons
  8. Dataset Cards · Hugging Face

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