Ensuring the preservation of reliable evidence: A research project funded by the NHPRC

Archivaria

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 28-45

  Duff, Wendy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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References (23)

1. An organization's ability to create a more empowered workforce, using technology to informate rather than automate, is described in Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future ofwork and Power (United States, 1988).
2. For a review of the study of diplomatics and its use in establishing the authenticity of records, see Luciana Duranti, "Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science, " Archivaria 27-33.
3. Charles M. Dollar, Archival Theory and Information Technolofiies: The Impact of Infonnation on Archival Principles and Methods (Macerta, 1992).
4. Michael Duchein, "Theoretical Principles and Practical Problems, " Archivariu 16 (Summer 1983). p. 17.
5. David Bearman, "Record-Keeping Systems, " Archivaria 36 (Autumn 1993). p. 18.
6. Teny Cook, "Easy to Byte, Harder to Chew: The Second Generation of Electronic Records Archives, " Archivuriu 33 (Winter 1991-92). p. 204.
7. Cited in Andy Reihardt, "Managing the New Document, " Byte (August 1994), p. 91. David Bearman, "Archival Principles and the Electronic Office, " in Angelika Menne-Haritz, ed., Infornzation Handling in Ofices and Archives (Munchen, 1993). p. 190.
8. National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, Archival Administration in the Electronic Age: An Advanced lnstitutefi)r Government Archivists (cosponsored by the School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, and funded by the Council on Library Resources) (Pittsburgh, 1990). p. 2.
9. Garth Graham, Cornelius F. Burk, and Henry E. McCandless, "Governance and Information: Myths, Realities and the Future, " Canadian Parlirtnzentary Review (Winter 1994), pp. 1-6.
10. Luciana Duranti, "Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science. (Part IV), " Archivaria 31 (Winter 1990). p. 14.
11. United States, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Research Issues in Electronic Records (St. Paul, 1991). pp. 7-8.
12. In 1992 the Commission adopted a long-range plan which included a5 one of its level one objectives the carrying out of the Working Meeting on Research Issues in Electronic Records' recommendations. Since that time the Commission has supported a number of research projects related to electronic records including the New York State Archives and Records Administration's Building Partnership Project and the Indiana University Electronic Records Project, designed to test the Pittsburgh Project's Functional Requirements for Recordkeeping.
13. Richard J. Cox, "Re-Discovering the Archival Mission: The Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project at the University of Pittsburgh, " (unpublished paper included in University of Pittsburgh Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project: Reports and Working Papers [LIS055/LS94001]), September, 1994, p. 10.
14. International Standards Organization, Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standards: Guidelines for Selection and Use, paragraph 4.16.
15. James Lamprecht, Implementing IS0 9000 (New York, 1993), p. 49.
16. United States, Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 803.
17. David Bearman and Ken Sochats, "Formalizing Functional Requirements, " (unpublished draft paper included in University of Pittsburgh Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project: Reports and Working Papers, LIS055/LS94001), September 1994.
18. David Bearman, "Virtual Archives, " (unpublished paper included in University of Pittsburgh Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project: Reports and Working Papers [LIS057/LS95001]), March 1995, p. 176.
19. David Bearman, "Towards a Reference Model for Business Acceptable Communications, " (unpublished paper included in University of Pittsburgh Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project: Reports and Working Papers [LIS057/LS95001]), March 1995.
20. Examples of sources the project consulted include: Performance Guideline for the Legal Acceptance of Records Produced by Information Technology Systems: "Part I: Performance Guideline for Admissibility of Records Produced by Information Technology, Systems as Evidence;" Technical ReportAIIM TR31-1992, Association for Information and Image Management.
21. Wendy Duff, "The Influence of Literary Warrant on the Acceptance and Credibility of the Functional Requirements for Recordkeeping, " (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1996). An article that describes the dissertation research will appear in Arcltives and Museum Informatics: Cultural and Heritage Information Quarterly 10, no. 4 (Winter 1996).
22. Wendy Duff, "The Influence of Literary Warrant on the Acceptance and Credibility of the Functional Requirements for Recordkeeping, " (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1996). An article that describes the dissertation research will appear in Arcltives and Museum Informatics: Cultural and Heritage Information Quarterly 10, no. 4 (Winter 1996).
23. I have published two sets of working papers, which are available on the project's web server at http://www.lis.pitt.edu/nhprc.