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Provenance

Who asserted a fact and how, on four axes; an ingested record that cannot be stamped is rejected, never defaulted.

Provenance is who asserted a fact and how, on four axes; an ingested record that cannot be stamped is rejected, never defaulted.

Parts

AxisWhat it recordsFor example
channelHow the fact arrived.ingest
derivationHow the value was made from what the source said.stated, normalized or computed
verificationWho vouches for the fact.posted
licenseThe license the fact is held under.LicenseRef-us-public-record

Example

The stamp on one Tidecharts prediction
{ "channel": "ingest", "derivation": "stated", "verification": "posted", "license": "CC0-1.0" }