Filenames are useful but unstable
Organizations rename documents to improve clarity, move them between folders and replace files under existing names. A citation based only on a path can break or point to changed content. Provenance models encourage identifying artifacts and their relationships separately from a single presentation location. This matters for research notes, project decisions and customer records that may need to explain their evidence months after the original file organization has changed.
Separate identity from location
For ABOLTUS, a proposed evidence reference could include a stable source identifier, a version fingerprint and the location known at the time of use. The visible filename would remain helpful to people, but it would not be the only way to recognize the underlying artifact. If a policy moves from a draft folder to an approved folder, the reference can show the new location while preserving the earlier version used in a decision. A genuinely changed file should be represented as a new version rather than silently treated as the same evidence.
Test ordinary housekeeping actions
A useful acceptance exercise would rename, move and overwrite source files after creating evidence links. Reviewers should check whether each reference resolves correctly or clearly explains why the original version is unavailable. No provenance model can recover content that was never retained. The intended ABOLTUS design should therefore state its retention assumptions and avoid promising permanent verification from a mutable file path alone. Reliable references begin with explicit source identity and a transparent account of what was actually preserved.