At 03:48 PM 4/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>You are invited to a talk by Heather MacNeil from the School of Library,
>Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia.
>
>Heather will speak on the issue of "authenticity and reliability in the
>digital environment."
>
>Friday, 3 May 2002
>10-11 am
>322A Clemons Library
>
>This talk is sponsored by the Supporting Digital Scholarship Project,
>funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Please feel free to further
>extend this invitation to anyone else who may be interested.
>
>Heather is a noted authority on the history of authenticity and
>reliability. She was a collaborator on the InterPARES (International
>Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) project.
>Heather's interest in authenticity is both historical as well as
>contemporary, and covers both archival records (defined precisely by
>archivists) and cultural heritage records.
>
>MacNeil defines authenticity as follows:
>
>"Authenticity is the quality of any document that refers to its integrity
>and the certainty of its purported identity. It follows that authentic
>documents are those whose integrity and identity can be proven."
>
>Her talk will cover the following:
>
>1. The historical and legal assumptions underpinning current archival
>notions of what constitutes a reliable and authentic record.
>
>2. Analysis of the characteristics and components of a record from the
>perspective of contemporary diplomatics as a means of assessing its
>authenticity. The analysis is based on traditional records and then
>attempts are made to extend it to the digital environment.
>
>3. The limits of this analysis as a guide to understanding (a)
>authenticity in a digital environment; and (b) authenticity as it concerns
>cultural documents, including digital collections such as the Blake Archive.
>
>
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>Daniel V. Pitti
>Project Director
>Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
>319 Alderman Library P.O. Box 400115
>University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4115
>Phone: 434 924-6594 Fax: 434 982-2363
>Email: dpitti@Virginia.edu http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu
>
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Daniel V. Pitti
Project Director
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
319 Alderman Library P.O. Box 400115
University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4115
Phone: 434 924-6594 Fax: 434 982-2363
Email: dpitti@Virginia.edu http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu
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