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How recordkeeping ensures trust in digital archives
Author(s) -
Sandusky Robert J.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401160
Subject(s) - digitization , metadata , workflow , digital preservation , successor cardinal , world wide web , digital archives , computer science , digital collections , scale (ratio) , database , geography , telecommunications , cartography , mathematical analysis , mathematics
ABSTRACT Imagine a researcher in 2067 examining objects in a digital archive that were deposited in the early 21 st century. How can the researcher be assured that those digital materials – whether born‐digital or digital surrogates of analog materials – have not been accidentally or maliciously altered sometime during the intervening decades? Ten archival workers – archivists, metadata specialists, digitization managers and preservation technologists – were interviewed about how contemporary recordkeeping practices ensure the authenticity of born‐digital files and digital surrogates for future users of the archive. This poster presents preliminary results about how archives are adapting to emergent needs for processing digital materials at scale, ensuring that workflows capture entities, activities and agents (provenance information), and ensuring that current systems support migration of provenance information to successor systems.