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   "class": "first-party-index",
   "status": "read"
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   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2013",
   "label": "California AB 2013",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own official texts, templates and specifications",
   "class": "primary-government",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993",
   "label": "[1810.03993] Model Cards for Model Reporting",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own official texts, templates and specifications",
   "class": "first-party-index",
   "status": "not-terms",
   "why": "Model Cards document trained models, not datasets"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/53/",
   "label": "AI Act article text mirror",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own official texts, templates and specifications",
   "class": "secondary",
   "status": "not-terms",
   "why": "the charter admits it for: reading aid only; EUR-Lex is the authority"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/hub-docs/blob/main/datasetcard.md",
   "label": "hub-docs/datasetcard.md at main · huggingface/hub-docs · GitHub",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own official texts, templates and specifications",
   "class": "first-party-index",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010",
   "label": "[1803.09010] Datasheets for Datasets",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own official texts, templates and specifications",
   "class": "first-party-index",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://research.google/blog/croissant-a-metadata-format-for-ml-ready-datasets/",
   "label": "Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own official texts, templates and specifications",
   "class": "first-party-index",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en/ai-act/article-53",
   "label": "European Commission AI Act Service Desk, Article 53: obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models",
   "license": "cited for reporting; the publisher's own official texts, templates and specifications",
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 "methodology": "Each standard's own official texts, templates and specifications were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every text, four questions were answered from its own words: binding or voluntary, asks where the data came from, asks about personal data, what it asks the card to contain. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the text read does not address the question. A standard with several texts reads 'varies' where they disagree. 6 standards, 11 texts.",
 "embed": "<figure style=\"margin:0;padding:16px;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;background:#ffffff\"><blockquote style=\"margin:0 0 8px;background:#ffffff\">6 published standards and legal templates say what a dataset's documentation must contain, each quoted from its own text, read 8 October 2026.</blockquote><figcaption style=\"background:#ffffff\"><a href=\"https://datacardgenerator.com/datasets/datacardgenerator-rules-from-primary-source/\" style=\"background:#ffffff\">What each data card standard asks a dataset to document, datacardgenerator.com</a></figcaption></figure>"
}
