CISCRA - Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives
Description: InterPARES - Records in the Cloud
digital (15545) cloud (8633) records (1860) archives (675) ubc (110) archival (108) interpares (6) slais (5)
Records In the Cloud (RIC) is a 4-year collaboration between the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the Faculty of Law, and the Sauder 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 Administ
Because of its low cost, organizations are increasingly moving their records into the cloud and delegating to cloud providers the responsibility for their security, accessibility, disposition and preservation. But how high is the price that these organizations pay in terms of control on their records or, as is the case with archives, on the records entrusted to them for permanent preservation? We have seen cloud providers go bankrupt, disappear or be sold; records being lost, retained when should have been
This is a qualitative research project that assumes an inductive relationship between archival, diplomatic, and legal theory, information technology and research findings. Research data will result from:
CISCRA - Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives