What it is
Hugging Face Gated Datasets let dataset publishers require access requests before files can be downloaded. Publishers can ask for contact details or additional form fields, and they can approve requests automatically or manually.
Gated repository infrastructure is increasingly common for conditional dataset sharing, even though it is closer to platform access control than to interoperable web signaling.
Limitations
Gating governs access at the repository level rather than expressing standardized downstream reuse preferences once data has been obtained.
Evidence trail
Examples
Basic gated dataset card Source
---
gated: true
extra_gated_prompt: "You agree to not use the dataset to conduct experiments that cause harm to human subjects."
extra_gated_fields:
Company: text
Country: country
---