[Incubator] Incubation Committee meeting Monday 17th

[Eli Adam]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> On 12-01-12 2:08 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't like the idea of using the word "legal check" as we do not want
>> to imply we had a formal legal review; I think this is why the word
>> providence was used previously.
>>
>
> Is it "providence review" or "provenance review". I always tought it was
> "provenance review" (English is not my first language, so I've heard both
> and never knew which one was right).
>

I think that we probably want to use provenance.

There are a few similar words that basically mean 'origin or source'
including provenience and provenance.

There are some other words, like providence (or capitalized,
Providence) that are spelled similar but generally have a slightly
religious meaning 'divine care or guiding hand of God' (it is also
possible for providence to have no religious meaning as 'careful
planning for the future or having foresight')

I think that we probably want to use provenance.  (This comes from the
perspective of US English.  Canadian, Australian, English, Indian and
other places where English is used may have different views.)

Bests, Eli

P.S. There is a particular archaeological meaning to provenience which
is the complete context of an artifact (and thus details of how it
came to be in that location and found).  This usually means the x,y,z
location as well as time.  Natural depositional processes are also
considered (i.e. if the location has been impacted by erosion,
earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption and coating by ash, etc).  This
is a minor meaning that is usually only known and used by
archaeologists.