Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo es profesora titular de universidad en el Área de Biblioteconomía y Documentación en la Universidad de León. Sus intereses científicos se dirigen al estudio de la utilización de revistas electrónicas, el desarrollo de colecciones, la comunicación científica y la organización del conocimiento. Ha dirigido proyectos de investigación y ha publicado trabajos relacionados con estos campos en libros, revistas científicas y actas de congresos.
The advent of the information paradigm has shaken many of the principles of archival theory and practice. One key issue is knowing to which extent can digital information be trusted. Digital resources are represented by metadata, and trust consists in demonstrating their authenticity. Since the traditional elements used to verify the authenticity of analog records are not suitable in the digital world, the field faces a major challenge. The use of abundant, pertinent and constantly captured metadata seems to one of the most relevant solutions. This article aims to contribute to tackle this issue by setting the goal of proposing a model that attempts to include the most relevant metadata elements to capture the information that contributes for ascertaining the authenticity of digital archival descriptions. To that end, mixed methods methodology are employed. A qualitative documentary research is used to collect, analyze and interpret a corpus of scientific literature. As a complement, the quantitative technique requirements engineering is used to extract from international description standards the metadata requirements that can assist in the presumption of authenticity. Both approaches are then combined through a critical lens into a single unifying model for authenticity that is deemed as complete as necessary but as simple as possible. The model can be used by organizations or as a contribution to the discussion of authenticity and trustworthiness in digital archival descriptions.
RESUMO As empresas têm o dever de salvaguardar os documentos e de gerir a memória organizacional. O desempenho desse papel depende do grau de sensibilidade e de registro de atividades. Neste estudo, refletimos sobre iniciativas internacionais de preservação dos arquivos de empresa, incidindo no caso português, e finalizamos com tendências no uso das tecnologias nestas organizações. Nesse intento, realizamos uma revisão bibliográfica de textos científicos e consultamos uma dezena de diplomas, contrastando os dados obtidos. Os resultados e as conclusões revelam uma tendência para a replicação de modelos e o caráter precoce, intermédio ou tardio das iniciativas internacionais, desencadeadas pelas empresas ou por parcerias com instituições públicas, destacando-se arquivos e universidades. Primeiramente, o foco esteve na proteção e na valorização do património, acrescentando-se, mais recentemente, objetivos tais como a organização e o acesso à informação. As iniciativas nacionais não fogem à regra, notando-se alguma novidade na quantidade e na qualidade das matérias legisladas, sem incidências, nos diplomas, em medidas concretas de preservação da informação digital. No uso das tecnologias, as iniciativas de modernização associam-se à Administração Pública e à assimilação de processos derivados dos ambientes eletrônicos. A comparação com outros países europeus revela um uso pouco intensivo dos serviços na nuvem.
The constant increase in digital information’s volume, variety, and complexity poses many problems that make it difficult to preserve archival information while ensuring that it remains authentic, reliable, accessible, trustworthy, intelligible, and reusable for as long as possible. This study explores the concepts of a possible implementation of a FAIR Accessor, a technology developed to provide Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable research data, as an infrastructure that can support and aid archival information description and ensure its authenticity. A qualitative literature review on a selection of representative works in the fields of Information Science, Diplomatics, and the FAIR principles is followed by a discussion on how the key concepts of each field overlay and thus may complement each other mutually. It is concluded that the infrastructure of the FAIR Accessor can prove useful in enriching archival description and, ultimately, in assisting to ascertaining the authenticity of records.
This paper aims to perform a qualitative synthesis of literature concerning the representation of information in displaced archives. Methodologically, this communication is configured in a metasynthesis oriented to theory building, constituting a non-reactive, documentary-based and exploratory type of study, focused on articles and books chapters published in English between 1954 and 2019. The collection of texts is supported by the SPICE strategy, applied to the search in databases (WoS and EBSCO). We adopted content analysis according to the assumptions of Charmaz and Finfgeld-Connett. Of the 443 records, 155 texts that responded to the research purposes were included. Three themes emerged from the content analysis around the aforementioned theme with a view to theory building: “anarchivism as (non-) representation”, “archive of the archive”, and “archival canon”. Finally, displaced archives constitute an emerging theme in several domains, so it is important to explore the complex nature of this phenomenon from the point of view of representation and knowledge organization.
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