Because language is so situated, when developing computational models for language processing from a corpus, it's important to consider who produced the language, in what context, for what purpose. How can a user of a dataset know all these details? The best way is for the corpus creator to build a datasheet (Gebru et al., 2020) or data statement (Bender and Friedman, 2018) for each corpus. A datasheet specifies properties of a dataset like: