Provenance of datasets

• Short Title: Provenance of datasets
• Source Documnent: Principles and best practices in data versioning for all datasets big and small
• Source Document Link: https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00042
• Publishing Organisation: RDA Data Versioning WG
• Date of Publication: 2020-01-16
• Topic: Quality control/ curation
• Keywords: provenance
• Addressed Stakeholders: data stewards
• Full Text: The definition of revisions and releases to describe that a dataset has been derived from a precursor helps to describe its lineage, or provenance. Semantic versioning, and related versioning schemes, encode in their release numbers information about a dataset and its precursors. Provenance, however, can be more complex than following a linear path. Information accompanying a dataset release should therefore contain information on the provenance of a dataset.