1st Edition
Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment
Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment explores issues that arise when digital records are entrusted to the cloud and will help professionals to make informed choices in the context of a rapidly changing digital economy.
Showing that records need to ensure public trust, especially in the era of alternative truths, this volume argues that reliable resources, which are openly accessible from governmental institutions, e-services, archival institutions, digital repositories, and cloud-based digital archives, are the key to an open digital environment. The book also demonstrates that current established practices need to be reviewed and amended to include the networked nature of the cloud-based records, to investigate the role of new players, like cloud service providers (CSP), and assess the potential for implementing new, disruptive technologies like blockchain. Stančić and the contributors address these challenges by taking three themes – state, citizens, and documentary form – and discussing their interaction in the context of open government, open access, recordkeeping, and digital preservation.
Exploring what is needed to enable the establishment of an open digital environment, Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment should be essential reading for data, information, document, and records management professionals. It will also be a key text for archivists, librarians, professors, and students working in the information sciences and other related fields.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Luciana Duranti and Hrvoje Stančić
Part I. STATE
1. Introduction to Part I
2. The role of records managers and archivists in open government
Elizabeth Shepherd
3. Policies and standards for recordkeeping and digital preservation
Maria Guercio
4. The impact of a legal framework for cloud computing on electronic recordkeeping and digital preservation
Stefano Allegrezza
5. Information governance: nature and maturity practices in EU public administrations
Basma Makhlouf Shabou
6. Governmental e-services
Lluís-Esteve Casellas
7. Inter-organisational collaboration on e-government
Göran Samuelsson
8. Economic models for cloud storage
Julie McLeod
9. Conclusion to Part I
Part II. CITIZENS
10. Introduction to Part II
11. Open Data and Privacy
James Lowry and Anna Sexton
12. Public trust in online records: The case of the UK care.data programme
Julie McLeod
13. User perceptions of born-digital authenticity
Jenny Bunn
14. Usability of electronic record management systems
Sevgi Koyuncu Tunç
15. Education of records managers and archivists
Liudmila Varlamova
16. Conclusion to Part II
Part III. DOCUMENTARY FORM
17. Introduction to Part III
18. Preservation of website records
Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
19. Metadata description schemas of cultural heritage institutions in the context of interoperability
Özgür Külcü
20. Preservation of digital print masters
Tomislav Ivanjko
21. Blockchain in digital preservation
Hrvoje Stančić
22. Conclusion to Part III
Conclusion
Hrvoje Stančić
Appendix 1. Checklist for the assessment of implemented governmental e-services
Appendix 2. Recommendations for planning and designing e-services between public administrations
Appendix 3. Checklist for single sign-on systems
Appendix 4. Checklist for ensuring trust in storage using IaaS
Appendix 5. Metadata elements relevant for retention and disposition of websites
Index
Biography
Hrvoje Stančić is a Professor and Chair of Archival and Documentation Sciences at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He was Director of the InterPARES Trust project’s Team Europe. He is participating in development of ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. His previous publications include Archival Science Dictionary: English-Croatian, Croatian-English (2015), Heritage Live: IT Tools-based Heritage Management (2012), and Digitisation (2009).