Provenance vs Authenticity - What's the difference?
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Place or source of origin.
(archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
(arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
(computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
(computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
(of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions.
(obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
As nouns the difference between provenance and authenticity
is that provenance is place or source of origin while authenticity is the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.provenance
English
Noun
(wikipedia provenance) (en noun)- Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
- This spear is of Viking provenance .
- The picture is of royal provenance .
See also
* provenienceUsage notes
* The term provenience in archaeology has largely replaced provenance'' because ''provenience'' is restricted to in situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present" chain of custody details of proper ''provenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities.authenticity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- I hereby certify the authenticity of this copy.
- The authenticity of this painting is questionable.