Trusting Records
Subtitle: Legal, Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives
By: by Heather MacNeil
Series: The Archivist's Library -- 1; Archivist's library -- 1.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789048155729; 9789401593755
Subjects: Information Systems; Philology; Humanities
Description: A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation of those facts. Record trustworthiness thus has two qualitative dimensions: reliability and authenticity. Reliability means that the record is capable of standing for the facts to which it attests, while authenticity means that the record is what it claims to be. This study explores the evolution of the principles and methods for determining record trustworthiness from antiquity to the digital age, and from the perspectives of law and history. It also examines recent efforts undertaken by researchers in the field of archival science to develop methods for ensuring the trustworthiness of records created and maintained in electronic systems. Audience: The target audience for this study is legal scholars working in the field of evidence law, historians working in the field of historical methodology, and recordkeeping professionals (records managers, information technology specialists, archivists) working on the design and implementation of contemporary organizational recordkeeping systems.
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