creationfact

Creationfact is a term used in information science to denote a factual statement about the creation of an object or work. It records information about who created it, when, and where, focusing on origin rather than content or function.

The term is a neologism formed from creation and fact. It does not represent a formally standardized concept in major taxonomies, but it appears in discussions of provenance and data modeling as a convenient label for origin assertions.

In data models and knowledge graphs, creationfacts can be represented as structured data such as creationFact(entity, agent, date, place) and may be accompanied by source references, confidence scores, and provenance lines.

Creationfacts are related to but distinct from other provenance elements like authorship, creation date, and origin metadata. They emphasize the act of creation and its attribution rather than merely the timing.

Examples: "The painting's creationfact asserts it was created by A. Painter in 1888 in Paris." "The codebase's creationfact indicates the repository owner, date of first commit, and location."

Limitations: reliability depends on source evidence; attribution can be disputed; the term is not universally adopted, and different schemas may use different properties to encode similar information.

See also: provenance, metadata, origin, authorship, creation date.