title: RETROSPECTIVE, SUBJUNCTIVE, PROSPECTIVE: PROVENANCE CHALLENGES ACROSS TIME
creators: Rhiannon Bettivia Yi-Yun Cheng Michael R. Gryk
abstract: This panel will explore provenance: as theory and practice; as a tool for sustainability; and as a space of shared struggle and challenge for digital preservations and those in fields ranging from archives to cluster computing. In digital preservation, provenance tells us where an object has come from, the myriad preservation actions we could take to care for it, and where we predict the object will need to go in future. This panel is intended for anyone who is interested in the world of provenance: defining it, understanding it, modeling it, addressing the vague dissatisfaction practitioners often have when researching and documenting it. Provenance is more about the journey than the destination: this panel aims to surface a variety of experiences with provenance and to facilitate discussion and a community of practice around the relationship between digital preservation and provenance.
keywords: provenance authenticity evidence archival values information theory