Managing Digital Records in Africa draws on the research work of the InterPARES Trust (ITrust) project that investigated interrelated archival issues focusing on legal analysis, infrastructure, trust, authentication, and education within the African context.
This research-focused book provides a legal analysis and systematic assessment of how African institutions manage digital records in four countries (i.e., Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). It also examines the extent to which records are managed using Internet-based applications, trust in such records, and digital record authentication to support the auditing process. Finally, it provides a curriculum analysis in digital records at institutions of higher learning in 38 African countries. The book's case studies illustrate the threads of discussion, which span the ITrust domains of legislation, infrastructure, authentication, trust, and education in archives and records management.
The book can be used as a premier reference source by private and public organizations, researchers, educators, archivists, records managers, and postgraduate students to make informed decisions about digital records, records management systems, cloud-based services, authenticating records, and identifying universities on the continent that offer archival programmes. The book may also find expression to practitioners in other fields such as law and auditing.
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate
Illustrationen
12 s/w Abbildungen, 12 s/w Zeichnungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 222 mm
Breite: 145 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-032-06637-0 (9781032066370)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Mpho Ngoepe is a professor at the University of South Africa and the Director of the School of Arts. He was the Director of InterPARES Trust project (2013-2018) for Team Africa.
Herausgeber*in
University of South Africa
Introduction: background, structure, and methodology; 1 Law and recordkeeping: a tale of four African countries; 2 Digital records infrastructure in Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe; 3 Authentication of records for auditing process; 4 Trust dimension of e-records in an African context: beyond statutory provisions; 5 Tapestry of the education and training landscape for archives and records management in Africa; Epilogue; Annexure A; Index.
