Provenance definitions for BSC Report
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_prove nance
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-partners-with-blockchain-startup-tieri... On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Kathleen Connor < kathleen_connor@comcast.net> wrote:
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
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Thanks for the link Susan And like many similar collaborations that have gone before and will come after, no doubt potentially good works will result. I say 'potentially' because it depends on what happens with the learnings. If they are just consumed internally to a product line of a particular organization, then there is not much community and societal leverage in the result. If the learnings are taken forward into open and transparent spec/standards development orgs so that the use cases, the flows and and the profiling of the protocols can be used as input into open specification work, then society benefits. It's nothing that anyone on this list did not already know, but worth reminding ourselves of occasionally... and why we are here..:-). Cheers Colin On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Susan Joseph <susan.joseph1786@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-partners-with- blockchain-startup-tierion-to-work-on-decentralized-data-integrity
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Kathleen Connor < kathleen_connor@comcast.net> wrote:
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/Incubat or/prov/XGR-prov-20101214/#Importance_of_provenance
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While I appreciate that "functional" definition posited by ISO/NIST, I think that it is too broad to define "provenance." To me, the definition seems more applicable to the term "attribute" and "provenance" is merely one of many attributes that we might use to assess quality, reliability, or trustworthiness. I am not even certain that provenance addresses reliability or trustworthiness. Paraphrasing a definition that I found online, I think that provenance may be defined as - "an attribute that provides a record of ownership or control of a thing or datum which can be used as a guide to authenticity or quality." Jeff --------------------------------- Jeff Stollman stollman.j@gmail.com +1 202.683.8699 <stollman.j@gmail.com> Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Science advances one funeral at a time. Max Planck On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Kathleen Connor < kathleen_connor@comcast.net> wrote:
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
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