CEPS™ Version 1.0 • An Independent Provenance Standard for the Global Art Community

Cultural Exchanges®

Cultural Exchanges Provenance Standard (CEPS™)

An Independent Institution for Artwork Provenance, Documentation and Cultural Stewardship

CEPS GOVERNANCE

CEPS Trust Centre

CEPS establishes trust through evidence, traceability, human review and accountable institutional decisions.

How CEPS establishes trust

Source → Evidence → Intelligence → Human Review → CEPS Decision

AI

AI accelerates investigation; it does not independently authenticate an artwork, establish ownership, certify provenance or issue a CEPS certificate.

C2PA

C2PA evidence concerns digital provenance and integrity. A valid C2PA result does not by itself establish historical authenticity, ownership or CEPS certification. Missing C2PA is not, by itself, evidence that an artwork is inauthentic.

Evidence Strength

CEPS Evidence Strength describes the strength and completeness of the available evidence. It is not a probability that an artwork is genuine.

Verification

Formal verification remains a human-governed CEPS process with defined scope, evidence review, attribution and audit history.

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