Governance

Provenance

Every item's history: origin, changes, AI processing, and validation, append-only.

Provenance is the platform’s memory: who contributed, who verified, what AI touched, and what changed, kept as history rather than overwritten.

What this covers

  • Origin and contributor on every item
  • AI processing recorded with model and workflow versions
  • Licence and consent changes kept as history
  • Synthetic media always labelled

Provenance, step by step

  1. Origin Contributed by a named person or institution, with source attached.
  2. Review Community review and, where applicable, expert validation recorded.
  3. Processing Any AI assistance (translation, transcription) logged with model and workflow version.
  4. Changes Edits, licence and consent changes kept as history; nothing silently overwritten.
  5. Now Current status shown wherever the item appears.

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