1. KONCEPTUÁLNÍ RÁMEC PRO OTÁZKY AUTENTICITY DIGITALIZÁTŮ KNIH.
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Cubr, Ladislav
- Abstract
Purpose - The article addresses the phenomenon of authenticity of digital documents and focuses in more detail on the issue of the authenticity of digitized books as a specific type of document. Currently there is no systematic conceptualization of the authenticity of digitized books in research literature. There are two objectives of the article. The first objective is to map the scope of the issues pertaining to authenticity in the context of the life cycle management of digitized books within an organization. For this purpose, the selected literature from the field of memory institutions is reviewed. The second and the main objective is to suggest an underlying conceptual framework for maintaining and assessing the authenticity of digitized books. Design/methodology/approach - The introduction of the article presents the concept of authenticity as a social construct developed by MacNeil and Mak. According to this concept, different authenticities of the same object may legitimately coexist depending on the perspective used. Then the archival concept of the authenticity of the digital document and the OAIS high-level framework for the digital documents' life cycle are introduced. Both resources are used as a basis for subsequent critical and conceptual analysis of literature. The analysis seeks for identifying fundamental conceptual elements pertaining to the concept of authenticity in the context of the life cycle of the digitized books. The outcomes of the analysis are the starting point for suggesting a conceptual framework for maintaining and assessing the authenticity of digitized books. This framework is based on the premise that establishing specific concept of authenticity is required for each type of document. Results - The main outcome of the paper is an underlying conceptual framework for the authenticity of digitized books. The suggested framework includes a redefinition of the concept of authenticity of the digital document, the introduction of the new term "reference object", and the specification of minimal attributes needed for expressing digitized book identity. All these components are the fundamental prerequisite for maintaining and assessing the authenticity of the digitized books. The conceptual framework implies that various approaches to the authenticity may be employed. This confirms the McNeal's and Mak's concept of legitimate co-existence of different authenticities of the same subject. Originality/value - There is still no systematic conceptualization of the authenticity of the digitized books describing all aspects and phases of the life cycle of the document in research literature. This paper presents the author's draft of an underlying conceptual framework for maintaining and assessing the authenticity of digitized books, which is unique in its complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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