Provenance vs Citation - 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.
An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words.
An entry in a list of source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
The passage or words quoted; quotation.
Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
As nouns the difference between provenance and citation
is that provenance is place or source of origin while citation is an official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.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 .