Digital continuity guarantee approach of electronic record based on data quality theory

Abstract

Since the British National Archive put forward the concept of the digital continuity in 2007, several developed countries have worked out their digital continuity action plan. However, the technologies of the digital continuity guarantee are still lacked. At first, this paper analyzes the requirements of digital continuity guarantee for electronic record based on data quality theory, then points out the necessity of data quality guarantee for electronic record. Moreover, we convert the digital continuity guarantee of electronic record to ensure the consistency, completeness and timeliness of electronic record, and construct the first technology framework of the digital continuity guarantee for electronic record. Finally, the temporal functional dependencies technology is utilized to build the first integration method to insure the consistency, completeness and timeliness of electronic record.