provenance

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Place or source of origin.
2. 2
   The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
3. 3
   The history of ownership of a work of art.
4. 4
   The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
5. 5
   The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
6. 6
   Background; history; place of origin.

Verb

1. 1
   To establish the provenance of something