Table 16 Sept 2026From “What is data provenance? The context behind a number”

What does data provenance mean?

Table 1What does data provenance mean?

Object	What it records	What it does not establish
Provenance	Entities, activities, agents, relations, and timing	That every source or operation is correct
Data lineage	The applied route from an input version to a field or result	That the measure represents the intended construct
Source verification	Whether a cited document or record is actually held and identifiable	That the source supports every sentence drawn from it
Data quality	Whether a field or result passes a declared fitness rule	That the result is causal
Event capture	What happened, to which unit, and when	Why the event happened

Swipe or scroll horizontally if the table is wider than your screen.

Source: Table from this essay. Sources and interpretation are given in the article.

PNG4:3, 1600 × 1200, with the title, the source line and the attribution set in the image isoglu-2026-what-is-data-provenance-fig01.png

From the essay

From the research bench

What is data provenance? The context behind a number

Data provenance records the entities, activities, and agents behind a result. A source path makes a claim reviewable and reproducible.

6 Sept 2026

Read the essay

This exhibit belongs to an essay: the numbers live here, the argument lives there.

Cite or embed

APA 7

Isoglu, S. (2026). What does data provenance mean? [Table]. isoglu.com. https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-data-provenance-fig01/

BibTeX

@misc{isoglu-2026-what-is-data-provenance-fig01,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{What does data provenance mean?}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Table 1, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-data-provenance-fig01/},
  note = {From the essay {What is data provenance? The context behind a number}}
}

Embed this exhibit

Copy this HTML to use the PNG exhibit on your site with its source line and a link back to the exhibit page.

<figure>
  <a href="https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-data-provenance-fig01/">
    <img src="https://isoglu.com/social/isoglu-2026-what-is-data-provenance-fig01.png" alt="Table 1: What does data provenance mean?" width="3200" height="2400">
  </a>
  <figcaption>Table 1: What does data provenance mean?. Source: Table from this essay. Sources and interpretation are given in the article. <a href="https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-data-provenance-fig01/">View exhibit</a>.</figcaption>
</figure>