Evidence Corrections and Changes in Circumstance

The temporal evidence pattern supports two types of evidence changes: evidence corrections and changes in circumstance.

Evidence Correction

An evidence correction is the replacement of an existing evidence record with a new evidence record in order to correct an incorrect piece of data. For example, an active bank account evidence record which contains an incorrect bank account number can be corrected such that the new bank account number replaces the incorrect one.

Change in Circumstance

A change in circumstance is when data in an evidence record changes over time due to changes in circumstance. For example, a bank account evidence record may include a bank account balance and this bank account balance is likely to change over time.

The temporal evidence pattern supports a succession of changes in circumstance to the same evidence object. For example, the set of changes to a bank account balance, each in succession of each other, collectively represent the changes to the bank account object.

Participant evidence is much more static than case evidence. As such, when editing participant evidence data the changes are recorded in place and instead of an in-edit record being created, the changes are recorded in place. A copy of the record prior to making this change is stored, which provides a history of changes made to the participant data.