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Metadata provenance

Use provenance when the origin of a value affects whether you trust, keep, or replace it. It is especially useful after automated or provider-driven changes.

Large libraries often combine manual edits, file scans, scrapers, downloaders, analysis workflows, and extensions. Reviewing origin lets you distinguish an upstream mismatch from a local edit and decide whether to correct one field or the workflow that supplied it.

  • Check which source supplied the field you are questioning.
  • Compare that source with the record’s provider identity and surrounding values.
  • Decide whether the correction belongs on this record, in provider configuration, or in an extension workflow.
  • Re-run automation on a small sample before applying the same correction broadly.

See Metadata for the boundary between descriptive values, file properties, and engagement data.