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This article surveys the issues of integrity of digital information in the networked environment. The emphasis is on the content of specific digital objects as they are transferred and transformed and on the meanings of integrity in these contexts, rather than on broader questions related to the migration of a system of literature into electronic formats. The current state of the art in techniques used to maintain information integrity such as document digest algorithms and cryptographic signatures is also briefly surveyed. ## What Does Integrity Mean in an Information Distribution System? A system of information access and distribution that maintains information integrity provides its users with consistent reference-through citation and retrieval-to a body of information over time. One should be able to expect that the contents of a work within the system will not change, and that as works are revised, these revisions will be tracked by the system as identifiable and distinct entities. When one retrieves a work from one year to the next, one should get the same content. If one retrieves a

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Author

Clifford A. Lynch

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8231)

Published

1994

Language

EN

Field

Computer Science (Physical Sciences)