governance::provenance

Provenance

The documented chain of custody — source, authority, ingestion, reviews, and version history — attached to a definition.

Canonical Definition

Provenance is the documented chain of custody for a definition, recording its source, its authoring or importing authority, the date and method of ingestion, all subsequent reviews and approvals, and every version change with associated rationale. Provenance is what makes a definition auditable: a definition without provenance is opinion; a definition with provenance is evidence. In a governed registry, provenance is non-optional metadata attached to every canonical definition and is exposed alongside the definition itself. Source: W3C PROV Data Model; WikiSure Research.