Defined terms used across the Digital Information Governance reference. Each term has a single canonical definition.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Digital Information Governance (DIG®) | A discipline for keeping AI-influenced decisions defensible and auditable. The decision layer above data, information, and AI governance. |
| AI decision governance | The common-language name for DIG: governing how AI-influenced decisions are made, recorded, and defended. |
| Information Provenance | Where the information feeding a decision came from, and whether it can be trusted. |
| Decision Traceability | A record of what was decided, by what, on what basis, and who is accountable. |
| Representation Integrity | Keeping a company accurately represented across AI systems, search, and data environments. |
| Audit Readiness | Being able to prove, on demand, that AI-influenced decisions met their obligations. |
| Decision integrity | The runtime discipline of capturing the attestation of a decision at the moment it is made. |
| Defensible AI decision | An AI-influenced decision that can be reconstructed, explained, and justified after the fact. |
| Information governance | The records and data lifecycle discipline (storage, retention, deletion). Distinct from DIG. |
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