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Gebru and colleagues: datasheets for datasets

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Evaluation, safety and interpretability · FORMALIZATION

Reference score95,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Proposed a structured dataset datasheet covering motivation, composition, collection and recommended use.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact seven-author work, first circulated in 2018 and published in Communications of the ACM in 2021. It does not treat documentation as proof of dataset quality or safety, or absorb model cards and later data-governance standards.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact seven-author work, first circulated in 2018 and published in Communications of the ACM in 2021. It does not treat documentation as proof of dataset quality or safety, or absorb model cards and later data-governance standards.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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