Provenance Tools

Provenance is originally incubated at Fact Protocol as part of its larger effort for combating misinformation, which is now spin-off as standalone AI x Blockchain (Web3) effort.

Provenance is one of the core initiatives/tools of Fact Protocol. Provenance is proposed as an open standard to establish provenance for free-flowing information on the web. The goal is to equip consumers with the ability to fact-check and validate the information they see online.

Provenance proposes a group of structured data markup (Schema.org compliant) tags and variants to cater to the variety of content delivery platforms such as fact-checking portals, news websites/apps, search engines, social media networks, etc. Access more details below.

factProvenanceTag (News Article)

With Fact Provenance Tag, News publishers can provide transparency and establish the original sources for the factual information they cover in their news articles, allowing readers to access and verify the sources themselves. Provenance Tag for News articles is similar to Provenance Tag for Fact-checks, but for news articles, it is quite straightforward because publishers only add the original/primary sources for the news they are covering in their articles.

Examples of original/primary sources include official press releases, interviews, public speeches, scientific journals, etc.

The advantages of News Article Provenance Tag:

1. Facilitates transparency.

2. Increases trust in publishers.

3. Enhances the user experience: By providing a source of information, it enhances the user experience, as users can now consume highly trusted information instead of unreliable or questionable content.

4. Provenance recording on Blockchain for immutability and retrievability with integrity. Example of this use case is detailed in the "On-chain Structured Data" section.