Trusting Records: Legal, Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives

by H. MacNeil and Heather MacNeil

Book Overview

A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation of those facts. Record trustworthiness thus has two qualitative dimensions: reliability and authenticity. Reliability means that the record is capable of standing for the facts to which it attests, while authenticity means that the record is what it claims to be. This study explores the evolution of the principles and methods for determining record...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904815572X
• ISBN13: 9789048155729
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"