Week 5 (February 16) - Electronic Recordkeeping: Issues of Authenticity and Authentication

LECTURE SLIDES

As a consequence of new records creating technologies, society is reconfiguring the means by which it is communicating and exchanging records. This session will explore some of these changes and assess emerging strategies and mechanisms for ensuring authenticity, integrity, and reliability of electronic records and recordkeeping.

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C Anne Gilliland-Swetland, “Testing Our Truths: Delineating the Parameters of the Authentic Archival Electronic Record,” American Archivist 65 (No. 2, Fall/Winter 2002): 196-215.

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