GCRI · Registry
Çavkaniya tomarê
Provenance is the account of where a record came from: who issued it, when, by what method, from which sources and through which transformations it passed before reaching the reader. Without it a record cannot be checked, weighed or corrected, only trusted or ignored. This page sets out how provenance is captured and expressed, why lineage chains break, and what the people who rely on registry records need to see before they do.
Record provenance on the record.
Record provenance: how the risk develops.
Issuer, date, method and source lineage. The dossier below sets out how the risk develops, what is measured, where the data come from, how it is modelled and who decides.
Lineage breaks at hand-offs
Records pass between spreadsheets, databases, aggregators and exports. Each step can drop the issuer, the source reference or the method note. Once the chain is cut, later copies look authoritative while nothing connects them to what they were derived from.
Issuer ambiguity
Organisation names change, merge and are spelt many ways, and people share names. Without persistent identifiers for issuers, two bodies are recorded as one or one as two, and responsibility for an assertion can no longer be established.
Method drift
The method behind a field changes, through a new coding rule, a new instrument or a revised definition, while the field name stays the same. A series then joins incompatible values, and no reader can see where the join is.
Laundering through aggregation
An unsourced claim is copied by an aggregator, quoted in a report and indexed by search engines. Each reuse adds apparent authority and removes context, until the claim is cited back to its origin as if it were independent confirmation.
How record provenance is modelled, measured and tested.
Model, texmînên wî, daneyên wî û nediyariya wî, bi şeweyê ku zanyar an endezyar kontrol bike. Avahî rêbazên weşandî dişopînin. Nirxên hatine xêzkirin nimûneyî ne, ne encam in.
Daneset û çavkanî
The data classes behind record provenance and what is recorded about each before it is used.
| Çîna daneyê | Çavkanî hatiye tomarkirin | Biryar hatiye diyarkirin | Lîsans hatiye kontrolkirin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wêneyên peykî, optîk û radar | sensor, asta pêvajoyê, dîroka wergirtinê | mezinahiya pîkselê û vegera çavdêriyê | her dîmen |
| Vekolîna nû û derxistina modela avhewa | model, ceribandin, endam, guhertoyê | tor û gava demê | her weşan |
| Sensor û pîvanên cihê xwe | stasyon, amûr, tomara kalîbrasyonê | xal û rêjeya nimûnegirtinê | her tor |
| Rûbirûbûna nifûs û mal û milkan | rêbaz, berhema salê, çavkaniyên têketinê | mezinahiya şaneyê û yekeya wê | her weşan |
| Sînor û erdnîgariya referansê | hilberîner, çap, dîrok | pîvan | her çap |
- Xetên eslê daneyê
- Qeyda W3C PROV ji çavkaniyê heta wêneyê
- Prensîp
- FAIR: dîtbar, gihîştbar, hevgirtî, ji nû ve bikaranîn
- Valahî
- wekî winda tê nîşandan, tu carî bi bêdengî nayê dagirtin
Provenance lets a reader trace a figure in any domain to its source.
- AvIn practiceA flow series traces to gauge, rating curve and agency.What a reader can checkLineage chain
- XwarinIn practiceA yield estimate traces to survey or model.What a reader can checkSource and method
- Cûrbecûrbûna jîndaranIn practiceA species record traces to its collector and dataset.What a reader can checkOccurrence provenance
Provenance underpins every edition of rêzeya Pergalên Stratejîk. It follows W3C PROV-O (2013) and the record identifiers of NS-3 in the proposed Nexus Standards.
- Gaps in a lineage chain.
- Source agencies’ own provenance records.
What is measured, and how well.
Each indicator carries its unit, its cadence, the kind of source behind it and the evidence label a value would carry. No values are shown: a programme supplies them under its own authority.
| Indicator | Unit | Cadence | Source type | Nîşan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Records with complete issuer, date and method | share of records | monthly | Schema validation | ÇAVDÊRÎKIRÎ |
| Lineage depth to a primary source | number of derivation steps | per record | Provenance graph | ÇAVDÊRÎKIRÎ |
| Unresolved source references | count | weekly | Resolver checks | ÇAVDÊRÎKIRÎ |
| Transformations without a recorded agent | count | monthly | Provenance graph audit | ÇAVDÊRÎKIRÎ |
| Records with content hashes or signatures | share of records | monthly | Integrity check | ÇAVDÊRÎKIRÎ |
| Issuers with a persistent identifier | share of issuers | quarterly | Identifier reconciliation | ÇAVDÊRÎKIRÎ |
| Provenance inferred rather than declared | share of provenance statements | quarterly | Curation review | TEXMÎNKIRÎ |
Where the evidence comes from.
Named public datasets and institutional records, each with its licence class. Sources by agreement are used only under their terms and never republished.
| Çavkanî | What it gives | Licence class |
|---|---|---|
| W3C PROV-O and PROV-DM | The standard vocabulary of entities, activities and agents for expressing provenance graphs | W3C document licence, free to implement |
| DataCite Metadata Schema | Creator, contributor, date, relation and related-identifier fields for research outputs | CC0 for metadata |
| ROR (Research Organization Registry) | Persistent identifiers for research organisations, with name variants, relationships and succession | CC0, no restrictions |
| ORCID public data file | Persistent identifiers for researchers, with linked works, affiliations and funding | CC0 |
| GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier data | Identifiers, legal names and parent relationships for legal entities | CC0, no restrictions |
| PREMIS Data Dictionary | Preservation metadata for events, agents and rights on digital objects | Free to use, maintained by the Library of Congress |
| RO-Crate | A specification for packaging research data with its provenance in JSON-LD | Open specification, attribution |
Who decides, and what the evidence serves.
Registry prepares evidence. The decisions below are taken by the authorities named, under their own rules, and never by the platform.
| Who decides | The question | Evidence this page serves |
|---|---|---|
| Data stewards | Whether a record’s lineage is complete enough to publish or must be held for curation | Provenance completeness, unresolved references and transformations without a recorded agent |
| Journal and report editors | Whether a cited registry record can support a claim in a manuscript | Issuer identity, method, date and the depth of lineage to a primary source |
| Research integrity officers | Whether an assertion was altered, misattributed or fabricated | Time-stamped provenance graph, content hashes and the full edit history |
| National statistics offices | Whether administrative or registry records can enter published statistics | Source lineage, method stability over time and documented transformations |
Outputs this topic produces
- Record views listing issuer, issue date, method and source references for each assertion
- Provenance graphs tracing derived records back to their primary sources
- A provenance completeness check applied to every record before publication
- Method change notes marking where a field’s definition or instrument changed
What provenance research asks.
- What is the smallest set of facts that lets a reader judge a record’s origin?
- How much lineage should be captured automatically, and how much asserted by people?
- How can provenance survive when records are copied, transformed or merged?
- How do we record a source that cannot be disclosed?
- How can a lineage claim itself be verified rather than trusted?
How lineage is lost.
Lineage is usually lost at boundaries: when a dataset is exported to a spreadsheet, when a figure is retyped into a report, when two sources are merged without recording which value came from where. Each step can be innocent, yet together they produce numbers whose origin no one can reconstruct. Archival science calls the related principle respect for provenance: records keep their link to the body that created them and to their original order.
Modern provenance models describe three kinds of thing: entities such as datasets and reports, activities such as a model run or a review, and agents such as people, institutions and software. The W3C PROV family of specifications expresses these relationships in a form machines can read, and the Registry’s lineage design is intended to follow it, as described on provenance and attribution.
Capturing and checking lineage.
- 01
Issuer and authority
Each record names who issued it and under what authority, so a reader knows whose word it is.
- 02
Activity records
Transformations, model runs and reviews are recorded with their method version and date.
- 03
Integrity checks
Cryptographic hashes can show that a file has not changed since it was recorded, a technique from ewlehiya sîber û kriptografî.
- 04
Sînor
Provenance shows where a record came from, not whether its content is right. Lineage is only as complete as the steps that were captured, and self-declared provenance can be false. Restricted sources can be named but not inspected.
How it is studied, and what the methods cannot say.
- 01Endezyariya daneyê, hevgirtî û xwedîtîSchema-validated ingestion · Persistent identifier reconciliation · Lineage capture in pipelinesApplied here
- 02Ewlehiya sîber û kriptografîTamper-evident record history · Signed exports and releases · Threat modelling of edit pathsApplied here
- 03Nasnameya dîjîtal û pergalên giştî yên dîjîtalIssuer authentication and authority · Contributor disambiguation by the personApplied here
Where this page’s references lead.
Sazî û belgeyên ku ev rûpel li hember wan tê xwendin. Rewş û çap diguherin; her girêdan diçe ba saziya derxistinê.
Pirs û bersiv.
What is the difference between provenance and a source?
What happens to records with incomplete provenance?
Does a digital signature make a record true?
Why do issuers need persistent identifiers?
Is provenance the same as citation?
What happens when a source is corrected?
Can provenance include restricted sources?
Ji vê rûpelê delîl bidin.
rêzeya Pergalên Stratejîk is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
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