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ARCHANGEL: Trusted Archives of Digital Public Documents

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DocEng '18: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2018

Article No.: 31, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3209280.3229120

Published: 28 August 2018 Publication History

Abstract

We present ARCHANGEL; a decentralised platform for ensuring the long-term integrity of digital documents stored within public archives. Document integrity is fundamental to public trust in archives. Yet currently that trust is built upon institutional reputation --- trust at face value in a centralised authority, like a national government archive or University. ARCHANGEL proposes a shift to a technological underscoring of that trust, using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to cryptographically guarantee the provenance, immutability and so the integrity of archived documents. We describe the ARCHANGEL architecture, and report on a prototype of that architecture build over the Ethereum infrastructure. We report early evaluation and feedback of ARCHANGEL from stakeholders in the research data archives space.

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Index Terms

ARCHANGEL: Trusted Archives of Digital Public Documents
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Application layer protocols
      1. Peer-to-peer protocols

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