Authenticity of Digital Resources

Authenticity of Digital Resources: Towards a Statement of Requirements in the Research Process

Authenticity in the age of digital companions

The first generation of children to grow up with electronic toys and games saw computers as their “nearest neighbors.” They spoke of computers as rational machines and of people as emotional machines, a fragile formulation destined to be challenged. By the mid-1990s, computational creatures, including robots, were presenting themselves as “relational artifacts,” beings with feelings and needs. ...

Authenticity in a Digital Environment May 2000

Preserving the Authenticity of Contingent Digital Objects: The InterPARES Project

In the development of digital libraries and of digital information systems in general, increasing attention is being given to issues relating to the preservation and authenticity of digital objects in order to assure their long-term accessibility and physical and intellectual integrity [Lynch 1994, Duranti and MacNeil, 1996, Bearman and Trant, 1998, Rothenberg, 1999, Council on Library and Info...

Protecting Multimedia Authenticity With ICA Vaccination of Digital Bacteria Watermarks

We propose the application of independent component analysis (ICA), via unsupervised neural networks, to authenticity protection for multimedia products. We give an overview of the current state of multimedia authenticity protection, including the requirements of various multimedia applications, current approaches to the problem, and the robustness of the approaches. For watermark security, a c...