Provenance Research
A pool of scientists who conduct digital provenance research in museums, archives, libraries, etc. In this CC, the individual object and its acquisition history form the starting point for provenance research.
The topic of the CC is the establishment of the use of authority files in the digital publication of previous owners and sellers. These preferably internationally recognized authority files are intended to help identify people and entities in connection with acquisition processes across collections and to reconstruct networks.
By using common, standardized authority files for people and corporations and the resulting information gain, object biographies can be traced across databases from various institutions, starting from the individual object, and objects that formerly belonged to a collection or person can be brought back into their original context