# Data Provenance Initiative: Data Provenance Collection

- id: src_01M569GD9DRW911XJ6GRTM87HM
- type: source · status: active · revision: 2
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=metadata_checked, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T20, T16 · tags: dataset-licenses, audit, provenance, text, level:advanced, code:python
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:24:06.756Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569GD9DRW911XJ6GRTM87HM

Source: https://github.com/data-provenance-initiative/data-provenance-collection

```json
{
  "archived": false,
  "revision": {
    "ref": "main",
    "pinned": false
  },
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "usefulness": "Audit of 44 data collections (1,800+ text finetuning datasets) documenting sources, licenses and creators, with scripts to filter by self-reported license constraints. Method and data for license-aware dataset selection; text-focused, but the audit approach transfers to media datasets.",
  "source_type": "dataset",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Data Provenance Initiative",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "Text datasets only; licenses are self-reported."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": "2025-03-26T02:46:12.000Z"
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [upstream_claim] README: volunteer effort for transparency in training datasets; audit of 44 collections spanning 1800+ finetuning text-to-text datasets documenting web and machine sources, licenses, creators and metadata; scripts filter by license constraints. · locator: README intro · source: https://github.com/Data-Provenance-Initiative/Data-Provenance-Collection
- [sourced_fact] Repo metadata: Apache-2.0, not archived, last push 2025-03-26. · locator: GitHub API fields · source: https://api.github.com/repos/Data-Provenance-Initiative/Data-Provenance-Collection
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

Rights:
- code: license=Apache-2.0 hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · Apache-2.0 for the scripts. · evidence: https://github.com/Data-Provenance-Initiative/Data-Provenance-Collection/blob/main/LICENSE
- dataset: license=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · License terms of the compiled metadata and the legal-notice section were not read. · evidence: https://github.com/Data-Provenance-Initiative/Data-Provenance-Collection

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