# Digital Provenance Envelope
**Entity class:** Analytic concept
## Definition
A **digital provenance envelope** is the accumulating informational identity attached to a physical object: coordinates, source identifiers, environmental classifications, legal and compliance evidence, custody and transformation events, risk states, and validation results.
It is an editorial name for the combined data object, not an official ICE product term.
## Relationships
- **implementation example:** [[wiki/ICE Commodity Traceability|ICE CoT]].
- **structure:** [[wiki/Traceability Tree|Traceability Tree]].
- **governance:** [[wiki/Computable Provenance|Computable Provenance]] and [[wiki/Machine-Readable Policy|Machine-Readable Policy]].
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- Editorial synthesis from ICE CoT’s published data categories and methodologies.