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Describe the principle of provenance stating its importance and the problems associated with it.

Describe the principle of provenance stating its importance and the problems associated with it.

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Faith
- It involves arranging records according to their source.

Importance of provenance
- It’s done as a way of demonstrating respect to the creating agencies.
- It’s made to act as evidence of a given organization.

Problems associated with provenance
- Sometimes it’s not easy to tell where some records are from because the name may not appear clearly or the organization might have changed its name in course of the time.
- Records could have been mixed up during the time of transfer.
Titany answered the question on July 23, 2021 at 08:56

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