provenance

• Obligation:  See Application Profiles
• Occurrence:  See Application Profiles
• Conditions:  See Application Profiles
• Scheme:  See Application Profiles

Element Semantics (Definition)

A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity and interpretation.

General

• Name:  provenance
• Label:  Provenance
• Namespace:  http://purl.org/dc/terms/
• Registration Authority:  Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
• Notes:  The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource.

Best Practices

Metadata Encodings Examples

• Resource Description Framework (RDF/XML)
  

  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
  <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
      xmlns:dcterms='http://purl.org/dc/terms/'>
  <rdf:Description>
      <dcterms:provenance xml:lang='en'>
      This file was created on 28 August 2002
      transformation from a TIFF image. The original
      TIFF image was purchased from the University of 
      Sometown, Department of Special Collections and 
      Archives in November 2001.
      </dcterms:provenance>
  </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>

• XML (Tags & Attributes)
  

  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
  <record xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
  <dcterms:provenance xml:lang='en'>
      This file was created on 28 August 2002
      transformation from a TIFF image. The original
      TIFF image was purchased from the University of 
      Sometown, Department of Special Collections and 
      Archives in November 2001
  </dcterms:provenance>
  </record>

• Crosswalks
  IEEE LOM: To be added
  MARC: To be added