# Model cards and datasheets for datasets

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## TL;DR

A model card is a short standard document shipped with a model stating what it was trained on, how it was evaluated, its intended use and its known failures; a datasheet does the same for a dataset.

## Summary

Mitchell and colleagues proposed model cards as documentation accompanying trained models, covering intended use, evaluation across conditions and demographic groups, and ethical considerations; Gebru and colleagues proposed datasheets recording a dataset's motivation, composition, collection process and recommended uses. The Hugging Face Hub makes both the expected README of any model or dataset repository. For a cancer model the card is where the research-only notice, the cohorts, the splits and the external validation results belong.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-09-24
- Also known as: model card; model cards; datasheet for datasets; datasheets for datasets; dataset card; dataset documentation; intended use statement
- Tags: cansim-terms

## Notes

- Listed in the CanSim terms map 1.0.0 (docs/onco/terms.json, generated 2026-09-24), CC BY 4.0, attribution: CanSim project, an open, public-data-first cancer foundation-model programme; CanSim page path /terms/model-card.

## Sources

- Mitchell et al., Model Cards for Model Reporting (arXiv 2018): https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993
- Gebru et al., Datasheets for Datasets (arXiv 2018): https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010
- Hugging Face Hub documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/index

## Connected records

- terms: [Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map)](https://onco.cc/terms/cancer-ai-vocabulary/), [Hugging Face Hub](https://onco.cc/terms/hugging-face-hub/), [Open weights, open code and gated models](https://onco.cc/terms/open-weights/), [Reproducibility and negative results](https://onco.cc/terms/reproducibility/), [Research use only (RUO)](https://onco.cc/terms/research-use-only/), [Software as a medical device (SaMD)](https://onco.cc/terms/samd/)

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