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COMPEL Glossary / embedding-governance

Embedding governance

Readiness criteria specific to vector-store operations — choice of chunking strategy, embedding-model version pinning, index refresh and re-embedding cadence on model upgrades, per-namespace access control, and retention/deletion workflow consistent with data-subject rights.

What this means in practice

A named readiness subset because RAG-grounded AI fails silently when embeddings drift out of sync with source data.

Synonyms

vector-store governance , embedding lifecycle management

See also

  • Vector store — A governed index of embeddings — numeric vector representations of text, image, or multimodal content — that supports similarity search used by retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Data contract — A versioned, testable specification of a data product's schema, semantics, quality expectations, SLA, and change-management policy — published by the producer, consumable by downstream AI workloads.