A dataset is not a folder. It is a history.
Every save is a commit. Branching, diffing and merging run on the annotations themselves, not on files, so you can rebuild and defend a release after everyone who made it has left.
Object stores version files and know nothing about a label. Annotation tools understand tasks and keep no version graph. Nothing sits in the middle, and the middle is where the inspection record has to live.
Become a design partnerA diff a metallurgist can read.
A line diff over a mask file says nothing about the part. Changes read as volume, boundary and class, in millimetres and counts.
Semantic diff
9e21ba7 → 4f3c9d1Conflict, resolved by a person
Resolving is itself a commit, attributed and reversible. Cherry-picking that one correction onto another branch is one action, not a re-labelling job.
A release states how much of itself a model wrote.
Named, then frozen
A release is a named selection over the graph, frozen at a commit. Run the selection again next year and it returns the same slices, not whatever the dataset has drifted into.
Composition is a fact, not a footnote
Every release reports its pseudolabel mix, and one filter cuts it down to human-approved labels. A training set cannot hide where its labels came from.
Rollback includes the rules
Reverting a dataset reverts its taxonomy and workflow configuration with it. You get a past decision back under the rules in force at the time, not today's.
It rebuilds without us
The manifest reconstructs outside Nitsor, from your own storage, in documented formats. Evidence only one vendor can read is not evidence.
Dataset release
frozen- export
- DICOM SEG · NIfTI · Zarr v3
- frozen at
- 2026-08-14 09:41 UTC
- taxonomy
- v4
All of this is in the source-available core.
Every save is a commit, so the version graph cannot be carved out and sold back to you. It is also the one thing the free annotation tools do not have, which makes putting it behind a licence the wrong trade. Calibration and Certificates sit on the enterprise side. Branching, diffing, merging and releasing do not.