The Recommended Practice for the Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data establishes a common set of parameters for the provenance of Indigenous Peoples' data. This Recommended Practice supports appropriate disclosure of Indigenous Peoples' relationships and/or links to all data. Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data includes information that facilitates Indigenous Peoples' governance, decision-making, participation, collaboration, and engagement in and for current and future uses of Indigenous Peoples’ data.

This recommended practice details the rules by which the provenance of Indigenous Peoples' data should be described and recorded. This recommended practice outlines the core parameters for providing and digitally embedding provenance information for Indigenous Peoples' data. The recommended practice establishes common descriptors and controlled vocabulary for provenance, including recommendations for metadata fields that can be used across industry sectors, including machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) contexts, biodiversity and genomic science innovation and other associated databases. This recommended practice supports proper and appropriate disclosure of originating data information. The recommended practice supports the long-term identification of Indigenous Peoples' data for future use, connecting data to people and place, and when appropriate, supporting future benefit sharing options.

The purpose of this recommended practice is to establish and define a common set of parameters, including the controlled vocabulary, for provenance of Indigenous Peoples' data. It is intended to facilitate interoperability of provenance fields among different databases and to support the use of Indigenous Peoples' data in ML and AI and biodiversity and genomic science industries.