Data collection
The first requirement is a defined corpus or dataset and a lawful, documented path to the source material. We plan and carry out collection against an agreed scope: what is to be gathered, from which classes of sources, in what formats, and under what constraints.
Collection is specified so that downstream extraction, governance, and training use can be traced back to the decisions made at this stage. The output is not only the material itself, but a record of how and why it was assembled.