Why and where

Buneman, P., Khanna, & Tan, W. -. (2001). Why and where: A characterization of data provenance. Database Theory — ICDT 2001.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2001

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44503-X_20verified

Cited from

history_historiography, operations_research

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Provenance
  • This asymmetry implies that metadata preservation is an investment decision: if I do not document now, verification later becomes probabilistic, costly, or impossible, an implication Buneman, Khanna, and Tan (2001) make precise in their why-and-where formal model of database provenance.

    This sourceDistinguishes "why" provenance (source data influencing existence) from "where" provenance (location of extraction); foundational separation of provenance claims from their underlying evidence structures.

• Traceability
  • It operates as both an operational capability and an audit trail: manufacturing lot tracking, code-to-requirements matrices, supply chain mapping, scientific data lineage, legal chain of custody, version control history, and pharmaceutical batch tracing all follow the same bidirectional linking logic.

    This sourceDistinguishes "why" provenance (source data influencing existence) from "where" provenance (location of extraction); foundational separation of provenance claims from their underlying evidence structures.

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