Long-term e-arhiv

Bojan Petkovšek (2011) Long-term e-arhiv. EngD thesis.

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Abstract

With expansion of e-business and consequently with creating original electronic documents, legally compliant long-term digital preservation has become a commitment for organizations that do business electronically. Accepted legislation that equalizes the legal validity of electronic documents with their paper original, regulates the operating and preservation of documents, recommendations, existing standards and service and equipment providers for ensuring long-term digital preservation, enable organizations relatively easy usage of digital preservation for both the original electronic documents and into electronic documents converted paper documents. The purpose of the diploma work is to hand a survey of the fields of legally compliant long-term digital preservation in Slovenia, regulation and accepted standards and recommendations, that are directly or indirectly connected to long-term digital preservation. The intention is to offer those key information about the field of long-term digital preservation, regulation, standards, recommendations and comparison of classic and digital preservation, which are most relevant from point of view of information scientist. The first part defines the key notions that occur in association with this field, then it describes regulation of the field of long-term digital preservation, pointing out the Uniform technological requirements (Enotne tehnološke zahteve). The fourth chapter describes standards and recommendations for long-term digital preservation, in depth describing the Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records (MoReq), that serves as a specification for most Slovenian and European long-term digital preservation systems. The fifth chapter describes classic long-term archiving and preservation of documents, which is followed by the sixth chapter which describes the digital long-term archiving and preservation. We show the key findings of long-term digital preservation in Slovenia research from Frodeecs d.o.o., carried out in the end of 2010. The last part hand the conclusions and sets the future changes and the guidelines in the field of long-term digital preservation.

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