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Tool ID: 249 InterPARES 2 - Creator Guidelines, Making and Maintaining Digital Materials
Brief Description: Outlines a series of activities to create and maintain digital materials that can be presumed to be authentic, accurate, and reliable.
Full Description: This document outlines a series of activities for individuals and small organizations to carry out to create and maintain digital materials that can be presumed to be authentic, accurate, and reliable. For individuals the burden may seem great, but the alternative—loss of records or the emergences of corrupt and unverifiable data—would be an even greater problem in the long run. Small organizations will benefit by making a clear designation of the individual or individuals responsible for overseeing the maintenance of the organization’s digital records. Not all recommendations presented in this document need to be implemented in each circumstance; you should be able to select and adopt the measures that address your particular problems in the specific context in which you operate. There may also be cases in which additional measures are necessary, because of legislative or regulatory requirements specific to your field, or because of the characteristics of the activity, and hence of the records that it produces. In such cases, consultation with experts may be required. The document was developed as part of "The Long-Term Preservation of Authentic Records" project, commonly called InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems). NOTE - Requirements in international juridical environments may differ from those for U.S. Federal recordkeeping.
Organization: InterPARES - The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems	Contact: Toolkit Mailbox
Issues Addressed: Creating authentic, accurate, and reliable digital materials.
Get the tool at: http://www.interpares.org/ip2/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2(pub)creator_guidelines_booklet.pdf
Format: Portable Document Format (PDF)	Occupation: Chief Information Officer/IT Staff, Program/Project Manager, Records Manager, Staff Member (employee)
Subtopic(s): Creation or Receipt of Records	Related Tools: 250, 251, 252
	Tool Type: Guidance
Copyright: http://www.interpares.org/copyright.cfm	Access Constraints:
Publication date: 2002 - 2007