# Data provenance

URL: https://aidataforsale.com/glossary/data-provenance
Publisher: AI Data For Sale (Marketing Signals Ltd)
Updated: 2026-11-10

The documented history of a dataset: who created it, how it was collected, under what rights, and what was done to it since.

Provenance lets buyers defend their use of data and meet training data disclosure rules. See [data provenance explained](https://aidataforsale.com/learn/data-provenance-explained).