diff --git a/src/distilabel/distiset.py b/src/distilabel/distiset.py
index 675e75d166..07c3481cc8 100644
--- a/src/distilabel/distiset.py
+++ b/src/distilabel/distiset.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 import logging
 import re
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 from datasets import load_dataset
 from huggingface_hub import DatasetCardData, HfApi
@@ -91,13 +91,15 @@ def _generate_card(self, repo_id: str, token: Optional[str]) -> None:
                 dataset[0] if not isinstance(dataset, dict) else dataset["train"][0]
             )
 
+        metadata = self._extract_readme_metadata(repo_id, token)
+
         card = DistilabelDatasetCard.from_template(
             card_data=DatasetCardData(
-                config_names=sorted(self.keys()),
                 size_categories=size_categories_parser(
                     max(len(dataset) for dataset in self.values())
                 ),
                 tags=["synthetic", "distilabel", "rlaif"],
+                **metadata,
             ),
             repo_id=repo_id,
             sample_records=sample_records,
@@ -117,6 +119,34 @@ def _generate_card(self, repo_id: str, token: Optional[str]) -> None:
                 token=token,
             )
 
+    def _extract_readme_metadata(
+        self, repo_id: str, token: Optional[str]
+    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """Extracts the metadata from the README.md file of the dataset repository.
+
+        We have to download the previous README.md file in the repo, extract the metadata from it,
+        and generate a dict again to be passed thoruogh the `DatasetCardData` object.
+
+        Args:
+            repo_id: The ID of the repository to push to, from the `push_to_hub` method.
+            token: The token to authenticate with the Hugging Face Hub, from the `push_to_hub` method.
+
+        Returns:
+            The metadata extracted from the README.md file of the dataset repository as a dict.
+        """
+        import re
+
+        import yaml
+        from huggingface_hub.file_download import hf_hub_download
+
+        readme_path = Path(
+            hf_hub_download(repo_id, "README.md", repo_type="dataset", token=token)
+        )
+        # Remove the '---' from the metadata
+        metadata = re.findall(r"---\n(.*?)\n---", readme_path.read_text(), re.DOTALL)[0]
+        metadata = yaml.safe_load(metadata)
+        return metadata
+
     def train_test_split(
         self,
         train_size: float,