ABSTRACT
This entry presents the International research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) project, an international multidisciplinary research endeavor that, since 1999, has sought solutions to the issue of long-term preservation of the authenticity of digital records. It first outlines the goal of the project, its membership, methodology, principles, activities, and products, and then it discusses its conceptual findings—specifically, the concepts of record and of authenticity—and its methodological findings regarding archival appraisal, preservation, and description. This entry concludes summing up the perspectives of the two phases of the project and providing a glimpse of its future direction.
