FROM PAST TO THE FUTURE: Trustworthiness of the Electronic Records

Trustworthiness is defined as the preservation of a record’s attributes, including its author, creator, preparer, and format, as they were at the time of its creation. In the context of electronic environments, questions pertaining to the alteration of record formats in order to adapt to evolving technological conditions over time, the preservation of the archival bond demonstrating the relationship between records with other records, and the demonstration of the possession of attributes by a record at the time of its creation are the subject of research in the field of trustworthiness research.

Supported by TÜBİTAK under the Republic’s 100th Anniversary Special Call with the number 323K449 and lasting three years (2024-2027), will present a roadmap for the necessary conditions to archive electronic records that contain significant information about Türkiye’s past, ensuring the continuity of the Turkish nation, and that have evidentiary value by containing rights, responsibilities, or obligations, so that they can be transferred to the future in a healthy manner.

The project will analyze the criteria that can be adopted to ensure the trustworthiness of audiovisual materials, including videos, photographs, emails, websites, social media records, and databases, which have archival value due to their functions within public institutions and organizations. In doing so, the opinions of regulatory and guiding institutions, as well as field experts, will be sought to ensure the trustworthiness of records, and applications will be implemented in public institutions.