We use trustworthiness to describe information system 1. We use the words 1. Reliability is the measure of a record's authority and is determined solely by the circumstances of the record's creation. Authenticity is a function of a record's preservation and is a measure of a record's reliability over time. Data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, etc.
Reliability indicates a record's authority and is established when a record is created.
Authenticity ensures that a record will be reliable throughout its life, whether that lifetime lasts six months, ten years, twenty years, or forever. Government creates a lot of information and 1. Information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. Information created or received during the course of government business that becomes part of an official transaction. All cards, correspondence, discs, maps, memoranda, microfilms, papers, photographs, recordings, reports, tapes, writings and other data, information or documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, storage media or conditions of use, made or received by an officer or agency of the state and an officer or agency of a county, city, town, school district, municipal subdivision or corporation or other public authority or political entity within the state pursuant to state law or in connection with the transaction of public business by an officer or agency.