bronopslag

Bronopslag is the practice of storing and managing the source materials that underpin a claim, analysis, or report. It encompasses both physical documents and digital files, together with the metadata, provenance, and access rights needed to locate and verify those sources. In journalism and academia, bronopslag provides an auditable trail from assertions to their origins, supporting fact-checking, reproducibility, and compliance with scholarly or editorial standards.

Key components include the original documents or data sets, copies or scans, metadata (author, date, edition, repository), version history, and citation links. Storage may be local or in institutional repositories, cloud services, or specialized archival systems. Practices often involve organized folder structures, standardized file formats, regular backups, and a clear retention policy. For long-term preservation, format migration, checksums, and periodic integrity checks are used.

Standards such as Dublin Core, METS, PREMIS, or discipline-specific schemas may be employed to describe sources and preserve provenance. Access controls and licensing are considered to respect privacy and copyright.

Benefits include improved transparency, easier verification, and compliance with data-management requirements. Challenges include ensuring ongoing accessibility, preventing link rot, protecting sensitive information, and managing copyright and licensing constraints.

Bronopslag is linked to related concepts like bronvermelding (citation of sources) and archiving; it sits within broader information-management and research-data-management practices.