CARLI AI Symposium - The Preservation of Trustworthy Digital Records

Abstract: This presentation will first identify the goal and key products of each of the 5 phases of the InterPARES project, a multinational and multidisciplinary research endeavor on the long-term preservation of reliable, accurate and authentic digital records. It will then focus on examples of case studies and general studies that are being carried out by the researchers of the 5th phase of the project, I Trust AI, which is in course. I Trust AI aims to design, develop and leverage AI tools to ensure the long-term availability and accessibility of trustworthy digital records.

Presenter: Dr. Luciana Duranti, a graduate of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, is Professor Emerita on post-retirement appointment, in the field of archival science, in the School of Information of the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada; and Affiliate Full Professor in the School of Information of the University of Washington at Seattle, United States. She started her career as State Archivist of Rome in 1978. In 1982, she became a Professor Researcher of Archival Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, until she moved to UBC in 1987 to teach in the newly minted Master of Archival Studies. Professor Duranti is the Principal Investigator of the InterPARES research project, which, since 1998, has developed theory and methods for the creation, maintenance and preservation of trustworthy digital records across technologies. She has published extensively on archival and diplomatics theory and on the use of their concepts for understanding the products of new technologies. She has been the President of the Society of American Archivists and of the Association of Canadian Archivists. Since 2015, she is the Chair of the Canadian Government Standards Board committee for Electronic Records as Documentary Evidence.