Week 06: Records and Evidence Part 2

Tutorial Exercises

• Are electronic records inherently more risky than 'paper' records? Come to the tutorial prepared to participate in a debate on this topic.
  
• Give examples of how electronic records might not satisfy 'full and accurate' criteria.

Lab Exercise

• "Well done" - Was this email message really the key to the unraveling of the Iran Contra affair or is it a bit of an urban myth? Use the Web and/or other sources to find out.
  
• Comment on the search tools you used - search engines, directories, subject gateways; the search queries that did (and did not) give results and evaluate your sources.
  
• What did you learn about records and recordkeeping along the way?
  

Articles

• Bearman, David and Trant, Jennifer, 'Authenticity of Digital Resources: Towards a Statement of Requirements in the Research Process', D-Lib Magazine, June 1998, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, June 1998, http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib/dlib/june98/06bearman.html.
• Cullen, Charles T., 'Authentication of Digital Objects: Lessons from a Historian's Research', Authenticity in a Digital Environment, Council on Library and Information Resources, May 2000, pp. 1-7, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/pub92.pdf.
• Hirtle, Peter B., 'Archival Authenticity in a Digital Age', Authenticity in a Digital Environment, Council on Library and Information Resources, May 2000, pp. 8-23, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/pub92.pdf.
• Smith, Abby, 'Authenticity in Perspective', Authenticity in a Digital Environment, Council on Library and Information Resources, May 2000, pp. 69-75, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/pub92.pdf.
• Smith, Abby, 'Introduction', Authenticity in a Digital Environment, Council on Library and Information Resources, May 2000, pp. vi-viii, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/pub92.pdf.

Resources

• Cain, Piers and Millar, Laura, The Implications of Electronic Records, ACARM, August 1999, http://www.acarm.org/documents/implications.pdf.

Resource Sections

• 'Electronic Records', in Commonwealth Records, National Archives of Australia, 30 March 2000, http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/summary.html.
• 'Archives Advice 41: Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies', National Archives of Australia, August 2000, http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/rkpubs/advices/advice41.html.