Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure is a theoretical paper by Lee Sharks dated 14 May 2026, held in this record as a metadata capture.
The title carries the argument: provenance is treated not as a bibliographic convenience but as the condition authorship survives under machine mediation — what must persist for a work to remain attributable once it has passed through systems that recompose it. The formulation recurs across the archive's provenance programme, which measures the loss quantitatively as PER and gives the concept a canonical surface at provenanceerasure.org (#1386).
The record is semi-restored, assembled from a DataCite full-metadata capture after the termination with no live authorial surface passing the body-head gate at restoration time. The captured fields stand verbatim in the body.