claim accepted goes to: this-edition A all three
Provenance is a graph: where a claim came from is a chain of edges back to its source
How Dinis sees the world is connections, which is why provenance is a graph and why so many relationships in the book are graphs: the influences, the paths, the evidence, the people in a team. The record should be 'a graph whose every edge has a date and a source'.
Decided by. Dinis, in Everything is connected; the editor records it in the vault
Where it comes from
- Everything is connected How I see the world (article)
- When journalism becomes intelligence, built 'not a pile of articles, but a graph whose every edge has a date and a source' (newsroom)
- Memory is not a spectator sport Provenance built in: a URL for every quote, a hash for every file, a byline on every page (newsroom)
What it answers in the 2018 book
Where it goes
Chapter Facts, evidence and the record, part Direction and judgement (drafting); topic Facts, evidence and the record.
Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Make fact-based decisions: think out loud and let the record check you, Ask to be corrected, and print the corrections with their sources, Question everything: a claim earns its status by being refutable, Questioning, and asking for the evidence, is one of the most important skills now, They care about privacy; Snapchat's best feature was that images disappear, Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away; build the agents and tools that find where things come from, Provenance and explainability are how you disagree rationally, Managing information so that decisions can be made is what work is, What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds is now a brief and a feedback loop, Be the best-prepared person in the room: briefings, pre-briefings, follow-ups, A graph is trustworthy not because it is right but because it is where users, experts and tests can correct it, Stale pages become false memories, so a memory must say where each thing came from and name its own errors.
Node idea:provenance-is-a-graph in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.