International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2: Experiential, Interactive and Dynamic Records

Abstract

InterPARES 2 Projectx Foundation (NSF); the Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana (ANAI), and all the institutions and organizations that have provided support to the individual researchers and are identified in Appendix 1 in connection with the researcher's name. Special thanks go to the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies for providing the office space for the headquarters of the Project.I wish to give my most heartfelt thanks to the following InterPARES Project staff for their deep commitment to the research and the researchers, and for their creative contributions to every aspect of the management of this gigantic project:

Big Questions: Digital Preservation of Big Data in Government

“…However, InterPARES 2's work expands the concept of a record in the digital environment "to suggest that individual digital components, or aggregations of digital components, might themselves constitute a record or a set of records, depending on how they are instantiated in the system and how they are used by the creator." 34 InterPARES 2 further adds the concept of interactive, experiential, and dynamic records. 35 Given Big Data's capacity to change based on user interaction and its dependence upon updating external or internal data sources, it aligns most closely with interactive 36 and dynamic 37 records.…”