revisionsa
Revisionsa is a hypothetical metadata standard proposed for expressing revision provenance in digital documents and software repositories. It aims to provide a formal schema for encoding revision identifiers, authorship, timestamps, rationale for changes, and cryptographic digests of content in a machine-readable way. The goal is to improve traceability, reproducibility, and integrity across edits and revisions.
The standard envisions a revision graph in which each revision references its predecessors, enabling clear chronologies
Potential applications include legal documents, scholarly publications, software releases, and public records where strong provenance and
Limitations and criticisms focus on the effort required to adopt a new standard, potential redundancy with
See also: metadata standards, version control, provenance, cryptographic hash, digital archive, data integrity.