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#Event | The Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. invites proposals to its Annual Conference: (Re)Positioning Provenance Research | Taking place in Hanover from 3 to 5 November | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/2026-annual-conference-of-the-arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung-ev-hanover/

#provenance #AI #DH

Deadline for applications: February 26, 2026

Climatic And Anthropogenic Controls On Late Holocene Sediment Transport To The Gulf Of Mexico By The Mississippi River
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105401 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #hydrography #humanimpacts #human #settlement #anthropogenic #levees #engineering #spatialanalysis #spatialtemporal #erosion #weathering #Mississippi #River #Sediment #Provenance #Zircon #grainsize #alluvial #alluvium #hydrogeomorphology #headwater #coast #coastal #delta #geology #Holocene #geochemistry #Sr #Nd #isotope #Strontium #Neodymium #detrital #climate #GulfofMexico

Factify-wants-to-move-past-pdfs-and-docx-by-giving-digital-documents-their venturebeat.com/infrastructure… #AI #documents #formats #provenance

Text Shot: Factify’s solution is to treat documents not as static files, but as intelligent infrastructure. In the "Factified" standard, a document carries its own brain. It possesses a unique identity, a live permission system, and an immutable audit log that travels with it.

"We wrote a new document format that supplants the PostScript," Gavish explains. "We created a new data layer that supports the document as a first class citizen... and it's always available inside the organization and potentially outside."

This distinction—between a File and an API—is the core of the company's pitch"

Files are liabilities: They accumulate, get lost, and can be stolen. "It goes back to a brick status," Gavish says. "Files are liabilities, if anything, because they just accumulate there, you have to guard them."
APIs are assets: A Factify document is an active object. You can ask it questions: "Who has seen you? When do you expire? Are you the most up-to-date version?"
'People don't change',…

Factify-wants-to-move-past-pdfs-and-docx-by-giving-digital-documents-their https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/factify-wants-to-move-past-pdfs-and-docx-by-giving-digital-documents-their #AI #documents #formats #provenance

This morning we clean up a niggly bit that's been bugging me

I created a provenance system in Wanderland, it's a bit of markdown that's injected at the bottom of the file automatically that indicates whether or not anyone's actually looked at the silly thing.

[ai slop... ai slop... ai slop... it's not the ai that asked for it was it? it's not the ai that couldn't be bothered to review it was it? ai slop is who's slop?]

The silly little buggers caught on and started adding it all on their own

```claude-dreams
# Provenance
Status: 🍏 Verified

## Changelog
<today is a lovely day>: Super cool doc dude, perfect - Claude
```
===

`if document.contains(#Provenance)`

===

So I've finished the hook system, at least far enough to stop that.

on_save | on_load -> middleware's got your back -> call in the markdown SEALs

[literally]

Just a buried comment

Break the seal if the hash doesn't match -> Status: 🍎 Sad Document Can't Do Nuffin

#programming #neovim #orgmode

the big boy version models these as viruses

it's not hallucinated, its improperly specified

only one of you has agency after all

everything is everything
web is vim is emacs is vscode<ctrl-w>not you sorry

Webinar on #provenance research. #culturalproperty #Nazi #Fascist #Era #Italy #Germany 👉Organised by ICOM Italy 🗓️28.01.2026 | 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 📌Programme: t1p.de/efqcf @akpf.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @ofpprojekt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @provenanceii.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @provenance-updates.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @provenancelab.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Registration is open for the Fourth #NFDI #Berlin - #Brandenburg network meeting on 19 May 2026.
Focus topics: #Provenance and #Reproducibility
https://events.hifis.net/event/3380/

Co-organized by @mardi and @wikimediaDE .

For materials from previous shindings, see https://zenodo.org/communities/nfdi_bb .

#openscience #fairdata

Provenance Is the New Version Control

https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcbiyal7jc2y

#HackerNews #Provenance #VersionControl #DataManagement #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTrends

Open up Finder clippings with Disclipper, and a Providable update

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/05/open-up-finder-clippings-with-disclipper-and-a-providable-update/

<p>To start this week I have a new app, Disclipper, and an update to Providable that’s recommended for anyone who reads its Help book.</p>
<h4>Disclipper 1.0</h4>
<p>If you have been following my recent series of articles about the Finder’s clipping files, you’ll be expecting this first release for macOS 14.6 or later.</p>
<p>This app analyses, displays and gives direct access to the contents of clipping files, including textClipping, pictClipping, webloc and mailloc files. It doesn’t work with their oldest versions, as they only contain information in their resources, but works with more recent clipping files from about 2015 that also store their data in the main body of the clipping file.</p>
<p>Simply drag and drop one of those clipping files onto its window, and Disclipper lists the data types it contains in its sidebar. Select one of those, and if it’s text-based the contents will be displayed in the main view in the window. If you only want to copy text, use the Copy command to do that, and you can paste the text into another document.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/disclipper01.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-90106" height="487" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/disclipper01.jpg" width="940" /></a></span></p>
<p>Where Disclipper comes into its own is saving files containing those types. textClippings made from a webpage in Safari, for example

Use Providable to check file histories

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/26/use-providable-to-check-file-histories/

<p>For your entertainment on Boxing Day, here’s some fun and games you can have with Providable.</p>
<h4>Does Providable change xattrs?</h4>
<p>When you first run Providable, it gets its own Provenance ID once it has cleared its first-run Gatekeeper checks. From then on, if it were to perform any of the 11 file operations that result in a Provenance xattr being added to another file, instead of checking those xattrs, it would end up changing them all. According to <a href="https://github.com/FFRI/ProvenanceChecker" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Koh M. Nakagawa’s research</a>, the 11 types of file operation are: create, open in write mode, truncate, link, rename, setextattr, deleteextattr, setattrlist, setflags, setmode, setowner, setutimes and setacl. As Providable only uses <code>getxattr</code>, that shouldn’t cause any problems.</p>
<p>To confirm this, if you haven’t already installed and run Providable, download the Zip archive from <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/providable10.zip">here</a>, unarchive it, and move just the app from inside that folder into the Applications folder of your choice. Run it the first time without doing anything useful with it, so it undergoes its first-run checks, then quit it, and open it again.</p>
<p>Now it should have been registered in the Provenance Tracking table in the ExecPolicy database, and when you click on the <strong>Load Apps</strong> tool in its main window, you should see Pr

Providable, a Christmas present

This is a terrific little tool that Howard Oakley released as a Christmas gift to the Mac community.(...)

#apps #macos #provenance #quarantine #security #tools #xattr

https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2025/12/26/1000

Inspect provenance and quarantine info in Providable, a Christmas present

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/25/inspect-provenance-and-quarantine-info-in-providable-a-christmas-present/

<p>Just over two weeks ago <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/07/last-week-on-my-mac-making-better-use-of-security-extended-attributes/">I explained why</a> it might be useful to be able to look at Provenance and Quarantine extended attributes (xattr) at scale. I’m delighted to deliver on that today, in what I intend as a surprise Christmas present.</p>
<p>Providable requires macOS 14.6 or later, I’m afraid, but in return for that it appears to perform quite well even when handling large numbers of apps and files.</p>
<p>Start in its main app window, where you need it to build an index of all the eligible apps on your Mac. Click on the <strong>Load Apps</strong> tool, at the left end of its tools. That runs a Spotlight search for apps, then checks each for a Provenance ID and Quarantine. Those with Provenance IDs are then assembled into an index, to be used to look up IDs found on files.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/providable01.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-89968" height="622" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/providable01.jpg" width="940" /></a></span></p>
<p>There are a couple on inherent limitations. Apps and processes signed by Apple don’t take part in the Provenance system, so those apps don’t get assigned Provenance IDs, and files they create and alter don’t get Provenance xattrs as a result. Apps include those bundled in mac

Hunting extended attributes with an update to xattred

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/10/hunting-extended-attributes-with-an-update-to-xattred/

<p>The first thing I discovered when I started hunting provenance extended attributes (xattr) was a bug in my free utility xattred. This can result in the app crashing when using its Crawler to explore xattrs on items in a folder. I have fixed that in this new version 1.7, available below.</p>
<p>My hunt was by and large successful, with a great many com.apple.provenance xattrs caught. There are some interesting problems, though.</p>
<p>Looking through the contents of the main Applications folder, there are three groups of apps:</p>
<ul>
<li>Those with Apple certificates, including bundled apps and those delivered through the App Store (which are all signed by Apple, not their developer), which have no provenance xattr as they don’t register with provenance tracking.</li>
<li>Apps with third-party certificates that have been installed simply, which have a single provenance xattr on the app bundle containing that app’s provenance ID.</li>
<li>Apps with third-party certificates that have been installed or updated using a third-party app such as their Sparkle update mechanism, whose entire contents have provenance xattrs attached by the installer/updater, so not bearing the app’s provenance ID.</li>
</ul>
<p>Examining files in the ~/Documents folder, there are plenty with provenance xattrs, and a great many with quarantine xattrs bearing information about their history including origin. Although some of the provenance IDs on them don’t match with those of

AI and Knowledge Graphs have the power to revolutionize research into Holocaust-linked art. But only if you dare to ask the right questions.
I’ll share some tools and methods on December 15 at the Center for Art Law online.
👉 Here’s an example of CHATGPT 5.1 pattern analysis of texts from John Richardson’s Vol 2 Life of Picasso. (Chapter: Collectors, Dealers and German Connection. pp 313-325. Plus footnote 88.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua3FYtc4Mgs
#provenance #mastoArt #Picasso #museum #AI #LLM

But are guidelines effective incentives for users to develop better ways of using?

In this talk, [Bettina Berendt, TU Berlin, #Weizenbaum Institute and KU #Leuven] concentrate on researchers as users and try to go beyond #ethics guidelines rule sets by asking what our core and overarching tasks and responsibilities as researchers are. “In the light of answers to these questions, I dissect three key challenges posed by #GenAI: bias, (deficiencies of) #provenance, and shallowness. I discuss examples of usage practices gathered from colleagues and students in the light of these challenges, and aim to enrich the list of good practices by drawing on your experiences.”

Last Week on My Mac: Making better use of security extended attributes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/07/last-week-on-my-mac-making-better-use-of-security-extended-attributes/

Quarantine, MACL and provenance: what are they up to?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/05/quarantine-macl-and-provenance-what-are-they-up-to/

<p>Over the last few years, files and apps on our Macs have started to bristle with unfamiliar extended attributes (xattr). The oldest is the quarantine xattr, containing the quarantine flag, dating back to the introduction of Gatekeeper in 2012. Although its primary purpose is to determine which apps should undergo first run checks, it’s also to be found on many files. Then in macOS Catalina, the MACL xattr appeared and now seems to get attached to pretty well everything, no matter where it has come from. It was joined by the provenance xattr in macOS Ventura, and that too is spreading like wildfire on both apps and files. This article reviews why they’re there, and what you can do about them.</p>
<h4>Quarantine</h4>
<p>Since its introduction, Gatekeeper has drawn a distinction between apps that originated outside the Mac, and those that can be fully trusted, when performing security assessments on the first occasion. To enable that, apps that download items from the internet, or transfer them from another system on the same network, attach a <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2022/09/09/app-first-run-quarantine-and-translocation/">quarantine xattr</a> to every file that arrives on your Mac. When archives are decompressed, for example, the quarantine xattr is propagated to every file they contain. Gatekeeper then performs full first run checks on those apps, and in the right circumstances they may be run in translocation.</p>
<p>This <code>com.apple.quarantine</co

Retroacheivements now work on Provenance including Tvos on test flight. So stoked. Basically have to now play all my retro games over again lol #videogames #retrogame #gaming #Provenance

Pleased to be at Schloss #Dagstuhl in Wadern, #Germany this week for a #CODATA-sponsored workshop: "The #Provenance Chain: Connecting and Reusing #Data, Models and Experiments".

Schloss Dagstuhl, the Leibniz Institute residential location for computer science workshops. A white monastery-like building with a wooded ridge behind.

[#veille] “Petite Fille au napalm” : cette nouvelle expertise qui confirme que Nick Ut ne peut pas avoir pris la photo
https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/petite-fille-au-napalm-cette-nouvelle-expertise-qui-confirme-que-nick-ut-ne-peut-pas-avoir-pris-la-photo-7028331.php
#provenance #Vietnam #vietnamwar #photodeguerre #warphotography

#provenance

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