Building Trust in Information Perspectives on the Frontiers of Prove
This book reports on the results of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary workshop on provenance that brought together researchers and practitioners from different areas such as archival science, law, information science, computing, forensics and vis
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Victoria L. Lemieux Editor
Building Trust in Information Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance
Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11960
Victoria L. Lemieux Editor
Building Trust in Information Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance
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Editor Victoria L. Lemieux School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (Information School) University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia Canada
ISSN 2198-7246 ISSN 2198-7254 (electronic) Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics ISBN 978-3-319-40225-3 ISBN 978-3-319-40226-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40226-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947454 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Foreword
To the uninitiated, “provenance” may sound like something that is only a dull and technical topic, but this is a misapprehension. The issues of provenance are pervasive, important, substantive, and interesting. Every television detective drama has a provenance story at its core, namely, the search for criminal evidence and the piecing together of the evidence in a story that explains how the crime occurred. On television, the provenance questions are always resolved and the bad guys are always caught; in the real world, it’s not so simple. I come to this project not with any particular expertise on provenance—the authors of the chapters that follow offer those skills in abundance—but as an end user of the enormous quantities of data emerging from the elaborate ecosystem of financial firms and their regulators and customers. Among many other things, data represent the primary raw material for my own area of monitoring and analyzing financial stability and systemic risk. It is from that perspective th
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