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When: June 15-19, 1999 Where: American Inn. Bethesda, MD, USA Participants: Luciana Duranti, Ken Thibodeau, Torbjorn Hornfeldt, Terry Eastwood, Maria Guercio, Livia Iacovino, Hans Hofman, Richard Blake, Bill Underwood, Bruce Walton, P.C. Hariharan, Heather MacNeil, Anne Gilliland-Swetland, Philip Eppard, Tom Quinlan, Seamus Ross, Lee Stout, Fynnette Eaton, Babak Hamidzadeh, Wai-kwok Wan, Peter Van Garderen. Observers: Jason Baron (U.S. Department of Justice), Bob Chadduck (National Archives and Records Administration), Ciaran Trace (Doctoral Researcher, University of California at Los Angeles), Mark Conrad (National Historical Publications and Records Commission).
InterPARES Researchers outside the American Inn. Workshop Objectives:
Summary: Research Workshop #2 provided many opportunities for debate and brainstorming on the priorities and research methodologies of the Project's Task Forces. The Authenticity Task Force is responsible for answering the Domain I Research Questions. The primary deliverable for Domain I will be an electronic records typology with conceptual requirements for authenticity defined for each record type. To populate the electronic records typology, the Authenticity Task Force is drafting a Template for Analysis that will be used to analyze electronic records or information systems that may contain records. To develop the Template for Analysis a form of grounded theory is being used. "Grounded theory" is a method for discovering concepts and hypotheses and developing theory directly from the data under observation. The Template for Analysis and the categories contained therein are based on the diplomatic elements identified by the UBC Project as being relevant to the authenticity and reliability of electronic records. An iterative process of testing and refinement of the draft template will apply real-world data about electronic records against the template. Successive rounds of case studies using questions designed to elicit data relating to different components of the draft template will be conducted on actual electronic records and record-keeping systems that have been identified at participating test sites and in other government, university, and industry sites. After the first round of case studies has been conducted, the resulting data will be coded and analyzed and used to refine the template further. The case study questions will then be modified as appropriate in accordance with the refined template, and another round of case studies will be conducted. Again, the resulting data will be coded and analyzed and used to refine the template further. Additional iterations of this process will be undertaken as necessary. The majority of Research Workshop #2 was spent debating the applicability and wording of specific diplomatic elements to be used in the Template for Analysis as well as brainstorming potential questions to be used in the case studies. A significant portion of time was also devoted to defining the objectives and research plan of the Preservation Task Force. The mandate of this task force is to identify and develop the procedures and resources required for the implementation of the conceptual requirements and the criteria identified in the first two domains. The task force refined the Domain III research questions to better reflect this mandate. As the Domain I & II requirements are still being developed, it was decided to begin the work of the task force with several prepatory, background studies including: media storage management, authentication methods, certification methods and preservation systems. Next International Team Research Workshop:
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