PROVENANCE

Provenance

Provenance, from the French provenir, "to come from", refers to the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, paleontology, archives, manuscripts, printed books, and science and computing. The primary purpose of tracing the provenance of an object or entity is normally to provide contextual and circumstantial evidence for its original production or discovery, by establishing, as far as practicable, its later history, especially the sequences of its formal ownership, ...

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provenance

Noun

  1. Place or source of origin.
    Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
  2. The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
    This spear is of Viking provenance.
  3. The history of ownership of a work of art
    The picture is of royal provenance.
  4. The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
  5. The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
  6. (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.


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