Provenance – The Next Essential Word for Your IT Vocabulary?
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Rob Hailstone - Published 04/01/2007
A collaborative “Provenance Project”, funded by the EU, finished its latest phase at the end of November 2006. The purpose of the project was to define an open architecture for the storage and interchange of information describing the provenance of data. Provenance is concerned with the ability to determine the sequence of events and activities that resulted in a particular decision or change of state of information. Effectively, it is a formalised approach to the implementation of traceability, which ha…
