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Third-party data readiness

The extension of data-readiness assessment to data supplied by vendors, partners, open-source corpora, or scraped sources — covering provenance, legal basis, contractual terms, known bias profile, and re-use constraints.

What this means in practice

Required because EU AI Act Article 10 obligations on providers include documenting training data regardless of whether the provider collected it.

Synonyms

external data readiness , vendor-data readiness

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.
  • Datasheet for datasets — A structured dataset documentation artifact covering motivation, composition, collection process, preprocessing, uses, distribution, and maintenance — modeled after electronic-component datasheets.
  • 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.
  • Fitness for purpose — The determination that a specific dataset is appropriate for a specific AI use case given the task, risk tier, and intended deployment context.