# Datasheet for datasets

> A datasheet for datasets is a structured document describing a dataset’s motivation, composition, collection process, preprocessing, uses, distribution and maintenance, following Gebru et al.

URL: https://data.arietalabs.com/glossary/datasheet/

Each Arieta Data SKU has a datasheet page and every snapshot ships a DATASHEET.md in the same structure, compatible with Hugging Face data cards.

Sources:
- [Gebru et al., Datasheets for Datasets (Communications of the ACM, 2021)](https://doi.org/10.1145/3458723)