ISO/IEC CD 5181.2

A draft is being reviewed by the committee.

Abstract

This document provides guidelines, methodology and techniques for deriving securely information called meta-data, from sources, intermediaries and users creating, manipulating, and transforming data. The meta-data derived from data creations and transformations serves for earning trust in entities and stakeholders during the whole lifecycle of data use and data manipulations. By referring to provenance meta-data an information respectively a decision base is provided to processes or, to individuals. Provenance meta-data of data records can also be applied from both, processes, or individuals when they have to decide which one of their data, they want to make voluntarily available to the public as a common good and which one not.