information about the events or source data used in constructing the data specified by the scope or lack of knowledge about lineage general explanation of the data producer's knowledge about the lineage of a resource type of resource and/or extent to which the lineage information applies information about an event or transformation in the life of a resource including the process used to maintain the resource description of the event, including related parameters or tolerances requirement or purpose for the process step date, time, range or period of process step identification of, and means of communication with, person(s) and organisation(s) associated with the process step process step documentation type of resource and/or extent to which the process step applies information about the source resource used in creating the data specified by the scope detailed description of the level of the source resource level of detail expressed as a scale factor, a distance or an angle spatial reference system used by the source resource recommended reference to be used for the source resource identifier and link to source metadata type of resource and/or extent of the source