Crowd-sourced investigations.
Provenance is a collaborative platform for building transparent, evidence-based investigations. It helps researchers, journalists, advocates, and public contributors turn large document collections into source-linked people, organizations, events, timelines, and relationship maps that can be reviewed, challenged, and audited.
Public investigations
Consider helping out with one of the following public investigations. It's easier than you might think.
| Investigation | Progress state | Documents reviewed | Annotations confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|
How collaborative investigations work
Every conclusion should point back to evidence. Provenance starts with documents and records the review history around annotations, entity links, and relationship claims so readers can see what is supported, what is unresolved, and what changed.
Source-linked evidence
Work begins with documents, sources, and evidence records rather than loose assertions.
Review before confidence
Annotations and relationships can move through contributor, reviewer, and moderator workflows before they are treated as higher-confidence context.
Challenge and correct
Records can be challenged so errors, ambiguity, and missing context have an explicit path for correction.
Audit trails
Meaningful changes are recorded so the project can explain how a record reached its current state.
Contribute carefully
Contributors help identify names, places, organizations, dates, and relationships in source documents. Reviewers check that work before it becomes higher-confidence evidence context.
Support or partner
Provenance supports careful public research. If you are a journalist, researcher, archivist, legal advocate, funder, or potential contributor, contact the project to discuss collaboration.