// GLOSSARY · AUDIT
The unbroken provenance trail from a single observation through scoring, finding, action, evidence, and closure — auditable end to end.
Chain of Custody (Assessment) — The unbroken provenance trail from a single observation through scoring, finding, action, evidence, and closure — auditable end to end.
Chain of custody in an OCTAAR record is the same idea as chain of custody in an evidentiary context: every record points back to its source, its handler, its transformation, and the version of the standard against which it was assessed.
Observation, rubric version, scoring evaluator, calibration state at time of score, finding, action owner, due date, evidence, closure, and outcome are all linked. Personnel rotation does not break the chain. Rubric edits do not orphan historical scores.
// ALSO KNOWN AS
Provenance chain, Assessment provenance
// DOMAIN
Cross-domain
// RELATED TERMS
Audit-Defensible Assessment
An assessment whose every cell is a citation, not an opinion — built from rubric versions, calibration state, evidence, and closure records that survive review.
Calibrated Rubric
A scoring rubric whose scale itself has been calibrated — not just the wording — so each score maps to a defined, defensible performance state.
// LAST UPDATED
· OCTAAR Methodology Team
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