Analysis of functional requirements to ensure authenticity and integrity of archiving Norwegian electronic public administration records

摘要

Authenticity and integrity are crucial elements of trust in physical or electronicdocument archiving. This thesis analyzed the functional requirementsof authenticity and integrity and how to ensure them in the context of theNorwegian public administration records. NOARK is the Norwegian recordkeepingand archiving standard and Fedora Commons an open source archivalrepository software are used as a record management system and archivalsystem respectively to establish the case of the study.For the purpose of meeting the objectives of the study, standards, literaturesand previous studies on the area of trusted recordkeeping and archivingare analyzed; on the basis of which an archival framework addressing authenticity,integrity and trusted chain custody is proposed and prototype isdeveloped as a proof of concept. The validation is carried out by purposelycompromising the authenticity and integrity of the electronic records in theprocess of transferring from NOARK to Fedora Commons and detecting thefailure in either of authenticity or integrity or both before and after archivingthe records.The study found out that records archived using our framework havemet the authenticity and integrity requirements of archival objects. Recordsarchived using the proposed archival framework are found to improve theevidential value of records for court cases.