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This book reports the findings of a research project on the means of protecting the integrity of active and semi-active electronic records. The project, which is commonly referred to as “the UBC Project,” was conceived by two of the authors of this book, Luciana Duranti and Terry Eastwood, and conducted between 1994 and 1997. The third author, Heather MacNeil, who worked formally as the principal research assistant on the project, acted as an equal in the research and in the writing of this book.
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United Nations, Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems (ACCIS), Management of Electronic Records: Issues and Guidelines (New York: United Nations, 1990), 28. Hereinafter cited as ACCIS report.
ACCIS report, 29.
ACCIS report, 30.
ACCIS report, 32–34.
John McDonald, “Managing Records in the Modern Office: Taming the Wild Frontier,” Archivaria 39 (Spring 1995): 70–71.
Margaret Hedstrom, “Building Records Keeping Systems: Archivists Are Not Alone on the Wild Frontier,” Archivaria 44 (Fall 1997): 57.
For a detailed analysis of the case, see Heather MacNeil, Trusting Records: Legal, Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), 77–85.
For a perspective on the broader archival issues raised by the case, see David Bearman, “The Implications of Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President for Archival Management of Electronic Records,” The American Archivist 56 (Fall 1993): 674–689. For a contemporary statement by the Society of American Archivists on the issues, see “Archival Issues Raised by Information Stored in Electronic Form,” Archival Outlook (May 1995): 8–9.
The first article was Luciana Duranti and Terry Eastwood, “Protecting Electronic Evidence: A Progress Report on a Research Study and its Methodology,” Archivi & Computer 3 (1995): 213–50. A list of all the articles related to the research is in Appendix F.
For a discussion of deductive versus inductive methods of research in archival science, see Terry Eastwood, “What is Archival Theory and Why Is It Important?,” Archivaria 37 (Spring 1994): 122–30. For discussion and comparison of our work with other research on electronic records-keeping.
see Hedstrom, “Building Records Keeping Systems,” 46–56, and Paul Marsden, “When is the Future? Comparative Notes on the Electronic Record-Keeping Projects of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of British Columbia,” Archivaria (Spring 1997): 158–73.
Alan Kowlowitz, “Appraising in a vacuum: Electronic Records Appraisal Issues—A View From the Trenches,” in “Archival Management of Electronic Records,” ed. David Bearman, Archives and Museum Informatics Technical Report No 13 (1991): 31.
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Eastwood, T. (2002). Introduction. In: Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records. The Archivist’s Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9892-7_1
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