# Computable Provenance **Entity class:** Data and governance concept ## Definition **Computable provenance** is the representation of an object’s origin, transformations, custody, evidence, and validation history in forms that software can query and evaluate. It converts provenance from a narrative or certificate into linked identifiers, events, rules, locations, and confidence-bearing records. ## Commodity example In [[wiki/ICE Commodity Traceability|ICE CoT]], a cocoa or coffee parcel can be connected to production plots, geolocation, forest classifications, lawful-production information, transport, storage, processing, aggregation, splitting, and merging. The resulting history can support automated checks without making the software a sovereign legal authority. ## Relationships - **structures:** [[wiki/Traceability Tree|Traceability Tree]], [[wiki/Digital Provenance Envelope|Digital Provenance Envelope]], and [[wiki/Data Lineage|Data Lineage]]. - **rules:** [[wiki/Machine-Readable Policy|Machine-Readable Policy]] and [[wiki/European Union Deforestation Regulation|EUDR]]. - **markets:** [[wiki/Intercontinental Exchange|Intercontinental Exchange]] and [[wiki/Machine-Readable Market State|Machine-Readable Market State]]. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [ICE CoT public methodology](https://www.ice.com/publicdocs/ICE_CoT_Public_Methodology.pdf)