Digital Camera Photographic Provenance

The term provenance is traditionally applied to works of art, referring to documentation which relates to the ownership and public visibility of a particular work, but also includes documentation of production, restoration, thefts, expert opinions on condition and valuations, and any other records which help to assess its integrity. In the realm of criminal evidence, the term chain-of-evidence carries a similar meaning, although the context is usually limited to establishing the source of a particular piece of evidence and its chainof-custody, an even more specific term which refers to the documentation and handling of a piece of evidence once it has been received by investigators. The difficulty with using the chain-of-evidence term for digital media is that the term implies a single version from a particular source, which survives as a single object in custody. Where the chain is AbsTRACT