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AI data lifecycle

The nine-stage progression from sourcing through retirement used as the reference frame for data readiness: acquisition, preparation, labeling, governance, training use, validation, deployment use, monitoring, retention and retirement.

What this means in practice

Derived from ISO/IEC 8183:2023; serves as the scaffold that data-readiness assessments map evidence against.

Synonyms

AI-data lifecycle , data lifecycle for AI

See also

  • Provenance — The record of origin and custody for a data asset — who collected it, from whom, under what legal basis, and through which hands it passed — required for auditability of high-risk AI under EU AI Act Article 10.
  • Readiness scorecard — A structured, dimension-by-dimension artifact summarizing evidence, scores, remediation priorities, and owner assignments for a use-case-scoped data-readiness assessment.