The post by Alex Green, the Kew-based Archive’s Digital Preservation Services Manager (titled *Trustworthy technology: the future of digital archives*) looks into what the it is doing to ensure the veracity of data as they transition between media to keep up with new technology. It begins by making the point that, if the archive can be changed for the better – i.e. ported across to new and better file formats, it could possibly be changed for the worse too. “This is one of the biggest challenges in digital archiving,” Green says, “the records are intangible and so they could be vulnerable to changes that might be made without detection and on a huge scale.” https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2JqJQeJ&d=DwIFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=b5NZPQUb9_r2rQ3Zd74ATT3aSs9yKyRnJLOhqJvd7fE&m=DFBBau9V9lKyoVQmbYqSE9UQRuJmoj4GGNeOMVygJ00&s=G_gWTKnU5Jqmo8-z2Ln21C7q5VlQdZ-M1XiQWy4qGj8&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2JqJQeJ-2B&d=DwIFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=b5NZPQUb9_r2rQ3Zd74ATT3aSs9yKyRnJLOhqJvd7fE&m=DFBBau9V9lKyoVQmbYqSE9UQRuJmoj4GGNeOMVygJ00&s=MtXdskdZi4GDVOahHcqq-Ne2Gn2QBACz1civTNaLquY&e= -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__emailcharter.org&d=DwIFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=b5NZPQUb9_r2rQ3Zd74ATT3aSs9yKyRnJLOhqJvd7fE&m=DFBBau9V9lKyoVQmbYqSE9UQRuJmoj4GGNeOMVygJ00&s=1auqcUUWdoaG_Bzt0Sb-wT3Zj5S6w_fOwYcuBx60aYE&e= “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]