Quality scoring

The checks every record passes before delivery, and how results are reported.

Updated 15 Oct 2026 · v1

Every record passes through the same stack of checks before it's delivered.

The checks

Every record carries the result of each check in its manifest checks object, as pass or fail. A record that fails a blocking check isn't delivered.

CheckWhat it testsBlocking
pii_scanNo personal data left in audio, transcript, headers, pixels or reportYes
burned_in_textNo text burned into image pixels (imaging only)Yes
dedup_webThe item doesn't duplicate content already on the public webYes
dedup_internalNo duplicate of another record in the datasetYes
benchmark_contaminationNo overlap with public benchmarksYes
quality_scoreThe item meets the dataset's quality barPer spec

The quality score

The quality bar is set with your research team when a dataset is scoped: for audio, things like intelligibility, channel separation and transcript alignment; for imaging, completeness of series, report presence and acquisition consistency. The score definition and threshold for each dataset are written into its datasheet, so you can see exactly what "pass" meant.

Dataset-level results

The datasheet summarises results across the dataset: how many records were checked, how many passed each check, and what was excluded and why.