The concept of record in interactive, experiential and dynamic environments: The view of InterPARES

Record Authenticity as a Measure of Trust: A View Across Records Professions, Sectors, and Legal Systems

“…In the digital environment a presumption of authenticity is an inference based on evidence about how the records have been created and maintained. Evidence may come from the records creator, or through further analysis to verify authenticity, such as comparison of the records with copies preserved elsewhere (redundancy), forensic analysis, testimony of a third party, or analysis of audit trails (MacNeil and GillilandSwetland 2005;Duranti 2005;Duranti and Thibodeau 2006;Duranti and Preston 2008). This study used both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis.…”

Cultivating archives: meanings and identities

“…When you fill in an order form on a website, or send in a tax return, or submit an application, the web document sets off a number of processes and generates other documents. Other examples of what Duranti and Thibodeau call ''enabling'' records (Duranti and Thibodeau 2006) are software patches that enable a musical instrument to interact with a computer and software in sites that interprets data about your previous actions on the site (Amazon.com's ''Hello, NN, We have recommendations for you'').…”

Rising to the level of a record? Some thoughts on records and documents

“…13 Of course, questions about how far standard computing environments can be relied on to ensure such persistence, how far the keeping of records requires additional measures, and what these measures should be, are not yet fully resolved. As the InterPARES project noted (Duranti and Thibodeau 2006), long-term preservation of records distributed across database tables, and of many electronic records in the form of compound documents, is more challenging than preserving single digital objects, because additional processing is required to assemble and interpret each record's digital components. 14 Fresko (2007) noted that 'in the real world many people think in terms of versions of a record', but that MoReq1 and MoReq2 are 'underpinned by the concept that there is only one version of any record'.…”