Re: Authenticating Publicly Archived Material: Hashing/Time-Stamping

From: Paul M. Gherman <Gherman_at_LIBRARY.VANDERBILT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:43:19 -0600

Could we solve the "achilles heel" concern by having an
organization like OCLC which archives all the
bibliographic records for 22,000 libraries take on the
Hashing/Time-Stamping service. They are disinterested
and not involved in any specific topic, have a robust
technological infrastructure and hopefully will be around
for a very long time. They have already existed 25 years
which is fairly long time in technology terms.


Paul M. Gherman
University Librarian
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Vanderbilt University
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Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 19:17:43 GMT