The document summarizes research from the InterPARES Trust Project, which aims to ensure public confidence in digital records on the internet. Examples of research topics included defining trust, requirements for preserving digital objects using cloud services (PaaST), the role of records managers in open government environments, and analyzing cloud service provider contracts. The project is now at its midway point, where the main challenge is integrating knowledge from regional working groups to design comprehensive research that addresses the goals of the InterPARES Trust project.

1. Research issues in the InterPARES
Trust Project
Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll, PhD, Department
of Information Science, Bar Ilan University
Assaf Tractinsky PhD, Israel State Archives
Eva/ Minerva
Jerusalem, 9th November 2016

2. InterPARES Trust – 2013-2018
• Funding
– Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Partnership Grant
– University of British Columbia's Vice President Research,
the Dean of Arts, and the School of Library, Archival and
Information Studies
Partners
• Partners: 70+ universities and organizations, national and
international, public and private and more than 300 researchers
• From various continents: from North America, Latin America,
Europe, Africa, Australasia and Asia
Director: Prof. Luciana Duranti, British
Columbia University, Canada
http://interparestrust.org/

3. Research Domains, Cross Domains and
Research Teams
• Five Research Domains
– Infrastructure, Security, Access, Legal, Control
– Control: Focuses on the management of digital material in online
environments. It addresses such issues as: authenticity, reliability,
and accuracy of data; integrity of metadata; chain of custody;
retention and disposition; transfer and acquisition; intellectual
control and access controls.
• Five Research Cross Domains
– Resources, Terminology, Policy, Social/Societal Issues,
Education
• Research Teams
– North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Australasia,
Asia and Transnational

4. InterPARES Trust (2013-2018)
Purpose:
To create theories and methodologies in order
to develop international and local policy,
procedures, regulations, standards and laws,
with the purpose of ensuring public
confidence in the digital records found on the
internet

5. The Work Environment of InterPARES
TRUST
• Storage and Accessibility in the Internet and
Cloud Environments
‒ Creation and access to records by people and organizations
‒ Storing enormous amounts of data
‒ An environment that is not very secure
• Questions
‒ Can the information be trusted?
‒ How and where is it stored?
‒ Who has legal control and authority over it?
‒ Who has access to it, and until when?
‒ How secure is the information?
‒ Is its privacy guaranteed?

6. Selected Research Topics
• Trust Definition
• Preservation as a Service for Trust
(PaaST)
• Open government, Open data, privacy,
and government e-service
• Cloud Computing Contracts Checklist

7. Definition of TRUST by InterPARES
Trust:
“Confidence of one party in another, based
on alignment of value systems with respect
to specific actions or benefits, and involving
a relationship of voluntary vulnerability,
dependence and reliance, based on risk
assessment”
Jenny Bunn/ Lluís-Esteve Casellas

8. Selected Topics of Research - Preservation as
a Service for Trust (PaaST) - (NA12)
• Proposal:
– Preserving digital information assets using services provided
over the Internet
– To define requirements for Preservation as a Service
satisfying archival objectives, passing from PaaS to PaaST
• Entrusting digital data objects designated for long-term
preservation to one or more cloud service providers,
• Retrieving those objects - identical to those transferred
to the provider
• Knowing any differences between the submitted and the
retrieved objects with sufficient accuracy and precision to
be able to judge whether they are suitable for any
intended use
Kenneth Thibodeau

9. Selected Topics of Research - Preservation as
a Service for Trust (PaaST) - (NA12)
• Aims
– Set of functional requirements for preservation in
the cloud
– PaaST, as a preservation standard, will be
complementary to the Object Management Group
(OMG) RMS specification.
– OMG (1989) is an international, open membership, not-for-
profit technology standards consortium.
– Some OMG standards: Unified Modeling Language, Business
Process Model and Notation, Common Object Request Broker
Architecture, Knowledge Discovery Metamodel, Model Driven
Architecture, Records Management Services
Kenneth Thibodeau

10. Selected Topics of Research - The Role of the
Records Manager in an Open Government
Environment in the UK (EU03)
• Proposal:
– Examining the role of the records manager in an open
government environment
• Methods:
– Interviews, surveys, literature reviews, case study at a
County Council
• Findings:
– RM involvement in early stages of choosing:
• Which data to publish,
• Ensuring security of personal data
• Well-established RM procedures and policies needed
• Time and lack of resources are barriers
Jessica Page, Andrew Flinn, Elizabeth Shepherd, UCL

11. Selected Topics of Research - Cloud
Computing Contracts Checklist (NA14)
• Proposal:
– Effectiveness of cloud service contracts in addressing
trust in records and the needs of records
professionals
• Methods
• Literature review
• Analysis of service contracts of 15 cloud service
providers
Jessica Bushey, Marie Demoulin, Elissa How, Robert McLelland

12. Selected Topics of Research - Cloud
Computing Contracts Checklist (NA14)
• Findings
– A checklist (Canadian, US, and European
jurisdictions)
– Helping organizations to evaluate their existing
contracts or negotiate new contracts
– Areas for consideration:
• Data ownership, availability, retrieval and use, data
storage and preservation, retention and disposition,
security, confidentiality, privacy, data location and cross-
border data flows, and end of service or contract
termination
Jessica Bushey, Marie Demoulin, Elissa How, Robert McLelland

13. Summary
‫של‬ ‫יותר‬ ‫רחב‬ ‫מגוון‬ ‫מתוך‬ ‫מחקרים‬ ‫של‬ ‫דוגמאות‬ ‫מספר‬ ‫ראינו‬‫פרוייקט‬‫האינטרפארס‬.‫הנושאים‬
‫מרכזיים‬ ‫הם‬ ‫הללו‬ ‫במחקרים‬ ‫הנדונים‬‫לפרוייקט‬‫המונח‬ ‫הבנת‬ ‫כגון‬Trust,‫אובייקטים‬ ‫שימור‬
‫דיגטלים‬‫הזמין‬ ‫הממשל‬ ‫בסביבת‬ ‫רשומות‬ ‫וניהול‬.
‫של‬ ‫זה‬ ‫בשלב‬‫הפרוייקט‬,‫ביצוע‬ ‫של‬ ‫השנייה‬ ‫במחצית‬ ‫כעת‬ ‫הנמצא‬,‫שילוב‬ ‫היא‬ ‫הגדולה‬ ‫המשימה‬
‫לאתגרים‬ ‫העונה‬ ‫כוללני‬ ‫מחקר‬ ‫לעיצוב‬ ‫השונות‬ ‫האזוריות‬ ‫בקבוצות‬ ‫הנרכש‬ ‫הידע‬‫שהאינטרפארס‬
‫לעצמו‬ ‫הציב‬ ‫טרסט‬.
We have seen several examples of research out of the variety of subjects
addressed by the Interpares project. These examples are central subjects for the
project, such as:
understanding the concept of trust, preservation of digital objects and
record management in an environment of open government
We are now at the halfway stage in the project. The main challenge now is to
integrate the knowledge acquired by the various local working groups, in order to
shape the overall research findings to meet the aims of Interpares Trust

15. ‫רבה‬ ‫תודה‬