Abstract
This letter responds to Andrew Wilson’s concerns regarding my article in IJDC 4(1) entitled “An Institutional Framework for Creating Authentic Digital Objectsâ€. This response clears up some of the issues regarding my assertions about digital certificates, metadata, and the roles of librarians in the digital environment.
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
In response to some of Mr Wilson’s concerns, my article is in many ways speaking to the academic library community (Jantz, 2009, p.78) and I did not intend to denigrate the contributions of archival science
A major thrust of my article was to develop an awareness of issues of digital object authenticity within the academic library community
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. Within the digital preservation community, there is considerable confusion and little consensus on the definition of authenticity. These various communities are making major contributions to digital scholarship, there is significant risk by implying that preserved objects are authentic.
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