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School of Business; the University of Washington School of Information; the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library
Science; the Mid-Sweden University Department of Information Technology and
Media; the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland School of
Business Administration; and the Cloud Security Alliance [1]. The RIC research
addresses the growing number of individuals, and public and private organizations
that are adopting cloud-based services, in an effort to save resources, without
exploring the full extent of the benefits and risks posed by entrusting the control of
their records to external service providers. The current lack of academic research into
accessing and storing records in the cloud, combined with the nascence of these
services to individuals and organizations, makes this study both necessary and urgent.
The potential for cloud providers to change their services, go bankrupt, or be
purchased by another provider presents the opportunity for records to be lost, altered,
or deleted. For individuals and organizations delegating responsibility for the ongoing
access and long-term preservation of their records to cloud-service providers, these
are serious concerns. Lastly, cloud-based services introduce a degree of complexity
that impacts many areas, including privacy, intellectual property and e-discovery.
Utilizing the theoretical constructs of archival science and diplomatics (i.e., the
study of the genesis, form and transmission of documents in order to establish their
authenticity and reliability) and the concepts developed by the International Research
on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) Projects 1, 2, 3
(<http://www.interpares.org>) and the Digital Records Forensics
(<http://www.digitalrecordsforensics.org>) Project, the RIC research will investigate
the following questions:
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How can confidentiality of organizational records and data privacy be
protected in the cloud?
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How can forensic readiness of an organization be maintained, compliance
ensured, and e-discovery requests fully met in the cloud?
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How can an organization's records accuracy, reliability, and authenticity be
guaranteed and verifiable in the cloud?
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How can an organization's records and information security be enforced in
the cloud?
How can an organization maintain governance upon the records entrusted in
the cloud?
Early RIC research activities include a literature review, an online survey of
cloud-service users and potential users, and interviews with cloud-service providers.
Informed by the products of these research activities, this paper will discuss the
trustworthiness of digital photographs in the cloud.
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1.1
Background and Context
In the past decade, one focus of archival institutions has been on digitizing archival
holdings for the purposes of increasing access to their holdings and supporting the
preservation of fragile media, such as photographs in glass plate format or unstable
moving image film. Traditional photographic media is comprised of layers of
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