Risk & governance
Data provenance
The origin, ownership and transformation history of data.
Definition
Data provenance records where information came from, how it was collected, labelled, changed and authorised for a particular use.
Why it matters
It supports privacy, intellectual-property, quality and regulatory assurance across training, retrieval and evaluation datasets.
Related concepts
- Model provenance
Traceable information about where a model, its data and changes came from.
- Data lineage
The traceable path data follows through systems and transformations.
- Audit trail
A durable record of inputs, evidence, decisions, actions and versions.