Primary-Source Explanation
The Meritocratic Provenance System is a proposed framework for documenting contribution, establishing provenance, incorporating measurable performance, and connecting documented contribution with attributable economic value.
MPS is designed to answer a fundamental question: when many people, organizations, datasets, ideas, or processes contribute to an economically valuable outcome, how can those contributions be documented and evaluated?
The framework uses provenance records to establish the history of contribution and independently measurable performance information to evaluate how those contributions relate to outcomes.
MPS begins with the proposition that economic systems should be capable of recognizing documented contribution.
Provenance establishes who contributed. Performance measurement provides evidence about outcomes. Contribution analysis provides a framework for examining how individual and collaborative inputs relate to those outcomes.
Function 1
Creates records describing participants, contributions, authorship, development history, and relevant relationships between contributors and assets.
Function 2
Establishes an auditable history describing where an asset or contribution originated and how the asset or contribution developed over time.
Function 3
Associates contributions with independently observable performance information relevant to the domain in which the asset operates.
Function 4
Provides a framework for analyzing the relationship between documented contributions and measurable outcomes.
Relationship to PBS