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Research Issues in Archival Provenance

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Building Trust in Information

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This chapter reviews the conceptualization of archival provenance and the related concepts of archival fonds and original order and the ways these concepts have guided practice. Section 1 identifies problems entailed by the qualitative and imprecise conceptual approach traditionally applied to the issues involved in the management, use, and preservation of records, and suggests a multidisciplinary strategy to reformulate basic concepts. Section 2 describes problems arising from the traditional approach in greater detail. Section 3 indicates how a multidisciplinary strategy might be applied to both clarify theory and improve practice.

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    The author was the NIH Records Management Officer from 1978 through 1988.

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    Kenneth Thibodeau

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    Victoria L. Lemieux

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Thibodeau, K. (2016). Research Issues in Archival Provenance. In: Lemieux, V. (eds) Building Trust in Information. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40226-0_4

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