That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
The initial portion of some extended thing.
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
Place or source of origin.
The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
Background; history; place of origin
The history of ownership of a work of art
The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
To establish the provenance of something