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by ape4 2006 days ago
Wikipedia says "Provenance is conceptually comparable to the legal term chain of custody." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance
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If you (ever) need to update your data, you need to know where you got it from, what was wrong with it originally, and how to pull it again.
Provenance, as a concept and specification, is well established in digital domain, as described by W3C's PROV specification https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ Ability to trace, audit, and reproduce artifacts or processes are some applications of provenance that align with needs for explainability in data analytics and data science/AI (XAI).