Is "author, author's timestamp, and author's org" the right scope for Provenance?

[Josh Mandel]

We propose to further delineate the provenance data class into three data elements: “the author,” which represents the person(s) who is responsible for the information; “the author’s time stamp,” which indicates the time the information was recorded; and “the author’s organization,” which would be the organization the author is associated with at the time they interacted with the data. We have identified these three data elements as fundamental for data recipients to have available and both are commonly captured and currently available through standards. We request comment on the inclusion of these three data elements and whether any other provenance data elements, such as the identity of the individual or entity the data was obtained from or sent by (sometimes discussed in standards working groups as the provenance of the data’s “last hop”), would be essential to include as part of the USCDI v1 standard.