What is it about?
Provenance is an archival principle used to identify and organize records of enduring value. The principal sometimes includes the principle of original order as well.
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Why is it important?
This principle is really the basis of all arrangement and description for archival records. It in turn affects retrieval and ultimately use.
Perspectives
This provides a broad and brief overview about the formation of the principle of provenance strictly from the Western point of view. It sums up the uncertainties of the principle so readers can swiftly acquaint themselves of its original intent in archival science.
Dr. Shelley Sweeney
University of Manitoba
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This page is a summary of: The Ambiguous Origins of the Archival Principle of “Provenance”, Libraries & the Cultural Record, January 2008, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/lac.0.0017.
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