historyCreate

Historycreate is a term used in information science and software development to describe the process or function of creating a historical record for an entity within a data store or system. It typically involves recording a snapshot of an object's state alongside metadata such as timestamp, user, and rationale, and linking it to a persistent history log.

Origin and usage of the term often reflect software naming conventions, with variants like historyCreate or HistoryCreate appearing in codebases that employ camelCase or PascalCase identifiers. In practice, historycreate is associated with approaches that capture state changes as discrete, auditable events, such as event sourcing or the use of temporal databases. It emphasizes the preservation of provenance and the ability to reconstruct past states.

Implementation and inputs for a historycreate operation commonly include an entity identifier, the new state or change set, the author or actor, a timestamp, and optional notes. The operation yields a new, immutable history entry with a unique history ID, enabling traceability and data lineage. In event-sourced architectures, historycreate may correspond to emitting a creation event that initializes the event stream for an entity.

Examples include logging the creation of a new customer in aCRM system or recording the initial state of a product in an inventory system. Considerations for historycreate include data privacy, retention policies, and performance impact, as well as integration with other audit and versioning mechanisms. Related concepts include audit trails, changelogs, version control, and temporal data management.