@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ On German research vessels, the "scientists folder" on the network or the new "M
Provenance documentation of (automated) SOP steps is required to enable reusability of data and validity checks. Provenance information needs to document the entities, agents and activities and should facilitate reproducibility but mainly document execution steps rather than enable the fully automated re-execution which would require automated setup of the software environment (through Docker etc.). Provenance of individual SOP steps should be recorded in a machine-readable fashion (i.e. a **yaml** or json file) like so:
```
executable:
path: </path/to/executable>
path: <executable name>
hash: <md5 hash of executable binary>
time: <utc time of execution, milliseconds since epoch>
