... preservation Trusted digital repository (TDR) Open archival information system (OAIS) Archival diplomatics Digital forensics Digital heritage South Africa Diplomatics, a discipline that originated in the 17th and 18th centuries, focuses on verifying the authenticity and reliability of archival...

... by an internal act of alteration. Originality/value – This study uses a unique approach of fusing digital forensic science with digital diplomatics in the form of using inherent redundancy in digital records and metadata for consistency analysis as a means to fuse the fields. © Emerald Group Publishing...

... of diplomatics or “evidence” in terms of digital forensics. It then isolates three layers of abstraction: the conceptual, the logical and the physical. By identifying the essential elements of a record at each layer of abstraction, a diplomatics of digital records can be proposed. Design/methodology/approach...