Hi

Below are the best Provenance definitions that seem appropriate for the BSC Report that I can find among the ISO/NIST etc. sources I reviewed.

Provenance = DF:  Information about entities, activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness.

W3C PROV-Overview http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-overview-20121211

Provenance of a resource is a record that describes entities and processes involved in producing and delivering or otherwise influencing that resource. Provenance provides a critical foundation for assessing authenticity, enabling trust, and allowing reproducibility. Provenance assertions are a form of contextual metadata and can themselves become important records with their own provenance.

[W3C Provenance XG Final Report] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/XGR-prov-20101214/#Importance_of_provenance