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Trusting Records in the Cloud
About the author
Luciana Duranti is Professor of archival theory, diplomatics, and the management of digital records in the master’s and doctoral archival programs of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies of the University of British Columbia. She is the Director of the Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives (www.ciscra.org) and InterPARES, the Digital Records Forensics, and the Records in the Clouds Projects.Corinne Rogers, Ph.D., is Project Coordinator for InterPARES Trust (2013-2018), and international research partnership funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). As an adjunct professor in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, she has taught diplomatics, and currently teaches digital diplomatics and digital records forensics, and digital preservation.
Summary
This book presents up-to-date research and offers concrete guidelines for information in the cloud. records professionals concerned with challenges to records in the online environment including privacy, accessibility, portability, metadata and ownership. Trusting Records in the Cloud presents the key findings of the InterPARES Trust project, which has investigated issues of trust in and trustworthiness of records in the cloud environment. The project generated theoretical and methodological frameworks to develop local, national and international policies, procedures, regulations, standards and legislation, in order to ensure public trust grounded on evidence of good governance, a strong digital economy, and a persistent digital memory.
