Distributed Digital Data: Keeping files consistent, timely and small

Digitalization of information across organizations has made information exchange between organizations easier. Information exchange, however, requires governmental organizations to define security policies, stating which information can be accessed, processed and indexed by which organizations, when, where and how. Ensuring that the information, once exchanged, stays up-to-date is a real challenge, as is enforcement of the security policies. This paper proposes the use of Distributed Digital Dossier in combination with agent technology to enforce these requirements. The domain of a Court of Law is taken as an example to illustrate the approach.