  This paper discusses the CRISTAL object lifecycle management system and its
use in provenance data management and the traceability of system events. This
software was initially used to capture the construction and calibration of the
CMS ECAL detector at CERN for later use by physicists in their data analysis.
Some further uses of CRISTAL in different projects (CMS, neuGRID and N4U) are
presented as examples of its flexible data model. From these examples,
applications are drawn for the High Energy Physics domain and some initial
ideas for its use in data preservation HEP are outlined in detail in this
paper. Currently investigations are underway to gauge the feasibility of using
the N4U Analysis Service or a derivative of it to address the requirements of
data and analysis logging and provenance capture within the HEP long term data
analysis environment.
