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Provenance vs Traceability - What's the difference?

provenance | traceability |

As nouns the difference between provenance and traceability

is that provenance is place or source of origin while traceability is the ability to trace (identify and measure) all the stages that led to a particular point in a process that consists of a chain of interrelated events.

provenance

English

Noun

(wikipedia provenance) (en noun)
  • Place or source of origin.
    • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
  • (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
    • This spear is of Viking provenance .
  • (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
    • The picture is of royal provenance .
  • (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.

    • See also

    * provenience

    Usage 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.

    traceability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia traceability) (-)
  • The ability to trace (identify and measure) all the stages that led to a particular point in a process that consists of a chain of interrelated events