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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

Addressed Stakeholders

data stewards

Keywords

provenance

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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.