[
  {
    "term": "Provenance",
    "category": "Ownership",
    "definition": "The recorded history of ownership or possession of an object. Each step should be linked to its evidence."
  },
  {
    "term": "Attribution",
    "category": "Authorship",
    "definition": "An assessment of who made a work. The wording may express uncertainty and may change with research."
  },
  {
    "term": "Attributed to",
    "category": "Authorship",
    "definition": "A qualified authorship statement. Read it in the context of the cataloguing system and the opinion being cited."
  },
  {
    "term": "Formerly attributed to",
    "category": "Authorship",
    "definition": "A record of an earlier attribution that is no longer the preferred identification in the cited catalogue."
  },
  {
    "term": "Workshop of",
    "category": "Authorship",
    "definition": "A relationship to production within a maker’s workshop; it does not simply mean an autograph work by that maker."
  },
  {
    "term": "After",
    "category": "Authorship",
    "definition": "A work based on another artist’s composition or model. This describes a relationship, not necessarily a date."
  },
  {
    "term": "Catalogue raisonné",
    "category": "Documents",
    "definition": "A systematic scholarly catalogue of a maker’s work within a defined scope. Check edition, entry and publication history."
  },
  {
    "term": "Checklist",
    "category": "Documents",
    "definition": "A list of works associated with an exhibition or collection. Its completeness and version should be established."
  },
  {
    "term": "Inventory",
    "category": "Documents",
    "definition": "A record of objects held at a particular time. Identification may require matching older descriptions to present-day records."
  },
  {
    "term": "Stock book",
    "category": "Documents",
    "definition": "A dealer’s business record. Entries may preserve object descriptions, prices and transactions within that business."
  },
  {
    "term": "Primary source",
    "category": "Evidence",
    "definition": "Evidence created in relation to the event under study. Its proximity does not remove the need to assess its purpose and accuracy."
  },
  {
    "term": "Secondary source",
    "category": "Evidence",
    "definition": "An account or interpretation drawing on earlier material. Follow its citations to understand the basis of a claim."
  },
  {
    "term": "Archival reference",
    "category": "Documents",
    "definition": "A locator within a repository, collection or file. Keep the repository and any box, folder or item identifiers together."
  },
  {
    "term": "Verso",
    "category": "Object",
    "definition": "The reverse of an object or sheet. Labels and inscriptions there may help identify its history."
  },
  {
    "term": "Inscription",
    "category": "Object",
    "definition": "Writing or a mark on an object. Its presence, wording, date and author are separate questions."
  },
  {
    "term": "Support",
    "category": "Object",
    "definition": "The material carrying an image, such as canvas, wood or paper, distinguished from applied paint or other layers."
  },
  {
    "term": "Technical examination",
    "category": "Methods",
    "definition": "Investigation of an object’s materials, structure or manufacture using specified methods."
  },
  {
    "term": "Infrared reflectography",
    "category": "Methods",
    "definition": "An imaging method that can reveal features beneath some paint layers. Results depend on the materials and imaging conditions."
  },
  {
    "term": "X-radiography",
    "category": "Methods",
    "definition": "An imaging method using X-rays to investigate internal structure and differences in material response."
  },
  {
    "term": "Provenance gap",
    "category": "Ownership",
    "definition": "An interval for which the ownership record remains incomplete. Record the gap without assigning an unsupported explanation."
  },
  {
    "term": "Corroboration",
    "category": "Evidence",
    "definition": "Support from another relevant source whose relationship to the first has been examined."
  },
  {
    "term": "Restricted record",
    "category": "Evidence",
    "definition": "A record whose full contents are not openly available. A public reference to it establishes less than inspection of the complete file."
  }
]