Documenting the Future: Navigating Provenance Metadata Standards

Bettivia, Rhiannon; Cheng, Yiyun; Gryk, Michael R.

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“…We recognize the historical origins of retrospective provenance , what has been, and the contemporary need to document prospective provenance , what will happen or subjunctive provenance , what could have happened. As such, we define provenance broadly as how something has come to be , and we incorporate the following key concepts into our exploration of provenance (Bettivia, Cheng, & Gryk, forthcoming): Provenance is fluid and transcends time; Creating provenance descriptions is both a conceptual modeling, a metadata recording exercise, and a persuasive exercise; Working with provenance is both a ubiquitous and field‐agnostic act. …”

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Storied Past, Bright Future: A Provenance Jam Session

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Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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This panel will explore provenance of the past, present, and future in information science and technology, as both a concept and professional and intellectual value. The OED defines “provenance” as origin, source, ownership of an artwork, or guidance to determine authenticity. Provenance today is not limited to history domains. It can be used to describe what did happen (retrospective provenance), what will happen (prospective provenance), and what could happen (subjunctive provenance). Provenance transcends disciplines, and this panel is intended for anyone who is interested in the world of provenance. Perhaps echoing life in general, provenance is more about the journey than the destination. The goal of the panel is not to find an authoritative answer to why we choose one method or theory of provenance over another. Rather, this “jam session” will empower participants‐ panelists, moderators, and audiences alike‐ to frame and answer provenance questions for their own work.

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Storied Past, Bright Future: A Provenance Jam Session

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“…Provenance is a more elusive term than it may appear. The ability to trace relationships over time, such as origins, custody, amendments, ownership, transformations, or workflows, is essential to establishing chains of evidence and trust (Bettivia et al, 2022;Mayernik, 2019).…”

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What data release means, and why it matters: an interview with Prof. Christine Borgman

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Stanford University is going through the difficult and highly fraught process of figuring out a plan for the library of the future. Coming on the heels of the "bookless library," touted as the vision for a new engineering library, a preliminary proposal in 2007 to tear down the seismically unsafe Meyer Library and digitize and house off campus most of its 600,000 volumes produced a cry of protest. The utopian ideal, imposed from above, might have met with less resistance had faculty members been involved in the planning from the start. But as charged responses mounted, the administration announced it would delay razing the library. Last fall a faculty committee of the Academic Council proposed its own plan for rethinking the library to the Faculty Senate, which has accepted it with a call for further rethinking by various university groups of how to put the plan into effect.The new faculty plan is characterized by a key shift in emphasis that is both less charged and more pointed. Rather than envision a "library of the future," it discusses the "future of the library," stressing continuity with an old entity rather than the creation of something brand-new. The distinction exposes what is at stake.

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