Why Capture Records at the Source? Provenance and Proof - E139

Provenance decides whether your data is AI-ready Everyone wants to point AI at their content repositories. Maura Dunn's position in Episode 139 is simpler than that. A model can only be as trustworthy as the data feeding it. Provenance settles that question long before anyone builds a pipeline. Records capture points settle provenance. These are the moments in a business process where an input becomes a record. Seventeen (17) steps later, the process has changed that input into something new. That is another capture point. Every copy, every hand-off, every transformation makes chain of custody harder to establish. Content versus context Our back file characterization approach documents the method while we build it. We do not hand a client a disposition report with no reasoning attached. Consider a recommendation to destroy sixty (60) of seventy-five (75) files. That report is content. The folder structures, file properties, creation and modification dates, and security group a...