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Preface
Securing Provenance Data
Provenance means the origin of a source, the history of ownership of a valued object
or a work of art or literature. Information about provenance is especially important
for works of arts, as it directly determines the value of the artwork. is also applies
to both digital artifacts and results that are generated by applications. erefore,
data provenance is one kind of metadata that pertains to the derivation history of a
product starting from its original sources. e provenance of a result or data object
can be regarded as important as the data itself; therefore, the quality or trust one
places on the data ...