Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment by Stančić, Hrvoje;

Short description:

Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment explores issues that arise when digital records are entrusted to the Cloud and will help professionals to make informed choices in the context of a rapidly changing digital economy.

Long description:

Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment explores issues that arise when digital records are entrusted to the cloud and will help professionals to make informed choices in the context of a rapidly changing digital economy.

Showing that records need to ensure public trust, especially in the era of alternative truths, this volume argues that reliable resources, which are openly accessible from governmental institutions, e-services, archival institutions, digital repositories, and cloud-based digital archives, are the key to an open digital environment. The book also demonstrates that current established practices need to be reviewed and amended to include the networked nature of the cloud-based records, to investigate the role of new players, like cloud service providers (CSP), and assess the potential for implementing new, disruptive technologies like blockchain. Stančić and the contributors address these challenges by taking three themes – state, citizens, and documentary form – and discussing their interaction in the context of open government, open access, recordkeeping, and digital preservation.

Exploring what is needed to enable the establishment of an open digital environment, Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment should be essential reading for data, information, document, and records management professionals. It will also be a key text for archivists, librarians, professors, and students working in the information sciences and other related fields.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; Introduction Luciana Duranti and Hrvoje Stančić; Part I. STATE; 1. Introduction to Part I; 2. The role of records managers and archivists in open government Elizabeth Shepherd; 3. Policies and standards for recordkeeping and digital preservation Maria Guercio; 4. The impact of a legal framework for cloud computing on electronic recordkeeping and digital preservation Stefano Allegrezza; 5. Information governance: nature and maturity practices in EU public administrations Basma Makhlouf Shabou; 6. Governmental e-services Lluís-Esteve Casellas; 7. Inter-organisational collaboration on e-government Göran Samuelsson; 8. Economic models for cloud storage Julie McLeod; 9. Conclusion to Part I; Part II. CITIZENS; 10. Introduction to Part II; 11. Open Data and Privacy James Lowry and Anna Sexton; 12. Public trust in online records: The case of the UK care.data programme Julie McLeod; 13. User perceptions of born-digital authenticity Jenny Bunn; 14. Usability of electronic record management systems Sevgi Koyuncu Tunç; 15. Education of records managers and archivists Liudmila Varlamova; 16. Conclusion to Part II; Part III. DOCUMENTARY FORM; 17. Introduction to Part III; 18. Preservation of website records Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll; 19. Metadata description schemas of cultural heritage institutions in the context of interoperability Özgür Külcü; 20. Preservation of digital print masters Tomislav Ivanjko; 21. Blockchain in digital preservation Hrvoje Stančić; 22. Conclusion to Part III; Conclusion Hrvoje Stančić; Appendix 1. Checklist for the assessment of implemented governmental e-services; Appendix 2. Recommendations for planning and designing e-services between public administrations; Appendix 3. Checklist for single sign-on systems; Appendix 4. Checklist for ensuring trust in storage using IaaS; Appendix 5. Metadata elements relevant for retention and disposition of websites; Index