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For the first time in 3,500 years of archival activity, people produce records that do not exist to the human eye. For the first time, people are not producing, managing, and saving physical artifacts but rather trying to understand and preserve virtual patterns that give the electronic information...

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Published in:Technology review (1998) Vol. 98; no. 1; p. 48
Main Author: Cook, Terry
Format: Magazine Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Technology Review, Inc 01.01.1995
Subjects:
Archives
Archives & records
Archivists
Chief executive officers
Climate change
Computer based
Computer memory
Data collection
Data protection
Database searching
Document imaging systems
Documents
Electronic data processing
Employees
Files management
Government archives
Indexing
Information retrieval
Information storage
Management
Nuclear power plants
Public records
Purchase orders
Records management
Software
Virtual storage (Computer science)
Canada
United States > US
ISSN:1099-274X, 2158-9186
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Summary:For the first time in 3,500 years of archival activity, people produce records that do not exist to the human eye. For the first time, people are not producing, managing, and saving physical artifacts but rather trying to understand and preserve virtual patterns that give the electronic information its content, structure, context, and meaning. Unless organizations adopt a means to control key records and continually migrate them to current software and new storage media, the long-term memory of modern institutions will be in jeopardy. Disaster can occur not only because electronic information is hard to preserve but also because it is hard to control. The key to maintaining critical electronic information lies in being able to determine, sometimes long after the fact, not only the content but also the context of a record in question. A project team of archivists has determined the following set of needs for capturing, maintaining, and using electronic records: 1. Records must be comprehensive. 2. Records must be authentic. 3. Records must be tamper-proof.
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ISSN:1099-274X
2158-9186