How We Work

OpenSpineConsortium is an open, GitHub-native research collaboration — not a company and not a closed lab. Everything we publish is meant to be inspected, forked, and improved.

Governance is intentionally lightweight: a project lead coordinates direction, contributors propose changes through public pull requests, and dataset releases are versioned and tagged. Disagreement is resolved in the open, in writing.

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    Open by default

    Code, data cards, splits, and evaluation protocols are public. Closed exceptions are documented and justified.

  2. 02

    Reproducible or it doesn't count

    Every benchmark ships with frozen splits and a runnable protocol. A result you cannot reproduce is not a result.

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    Clinically grounded

    Priorities are set by what matters at the point of care, with practising clinicians in the loop.

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    Responsible data stewardship

    We respect source licenses, document consent basis, and publish Responsible-AI metadata with every release.