# Dataset Development Standard (DDS)

Status: active  
Version: 0.2.1  
Reviewed: 2026-09-23  
Canonical source reference: DDS/DDS.manifest.toml

Governs datasets, corpora, provenance, licensing, validation, splits, hashes, usage notes, sensitive-data constraints, and release readiness.

## Scope

Datasets, training corpora, evaluation sets, reference archives, derived datasets, provenance, licensing, validation, splits, integrity, and usage constraints.

This is a reviewed public summary of the named manifest, not a release or independent audit claim.