bicentennial
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
I did mean "quality assurance".
IF "provenance" can have both meanings, then I suppose thats not obvious enough. I recognise "quality control" as a function within a municipal organisation. And the NHS monitors for some quality control. So does Sainsburies. Quality control is woefully lacking in many organisations, charitable and clinical.
I am not familiar with the usage of "quality assurance". I could use a handier word than control & assurance. A handy word for the unspecified quality marks being assumed - whenever preliminary, contrived or low-grade indications are dressed up. As if proven by the "evidence-based" label.
Such endorsements; supposed to have evaluated the evidence in question. Supposedly vetted as an authentic conclusion. Given pause for thought, I replaced "provenance" with "quality", since my sense of "provenance" was obscure. The closest I can find for its other usage is:
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- Provenance (geology), the reconstruction of the origin of sediments
- Provenance (information technologies), describe how an artifact or set of artifacts was produced
- Data provenance, a generalisation of data lineage:
In information systems, data provenance is information about the entities, activities, and agents involved in producing a piece of data;
- it records how data was derived and can be used to assess quality, reliability, and trustworthiness.
Provenance > Date provenance:
Scientific research is generally held to be of good provenance when it is documented in detail sufficient to allow reproducibility.
Scientific workflow systems assist scientists and programmers with tracking their data through all transformations, analyses, and interpretations.
Data sets are reliable when the processes used to create them are reproducible and analyzable for defects.
Security researchers are interested in data provenance because it can analyze suspicious data and make large opaque systems transparent.
