Abstract
Long-term preservation of digital objects requires curators to be able to guarantee the archival authenticity of the objects in a digital repository. In IJDC 4(1), Ronald Jantz suggested that a digital certificate is sufficient to ensure authenticity. The letter writer takes issue with this view and points out some of the archival misinterpretations in the Jantz article. He maintains that the archival literature is a rich source for discussions of authenticity that has been ignored to the detriment of Jantz’s arguments.
Highlights
The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors
ISSN: 1746-8256 The IJDC is published by UKOLN at the University of Bath and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre
As a professional archivist of long-standing I must address what I see as some errors of interpretation and some of fact in the article by Ronald Jantz, “An Institutional Framework for Creating Authentic Digital Objects” in Vol 4, No 1 (2009) of the IJDC
Summary
The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. As a professional archivist of long-standing I must address what I see as some errors of interpretation and some of fact in the article by Ronald Jantz, “An Institutional Framework for Creating Authentic Digital Objects” in Vol 4, No 1 (2009) of the IJDC.
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