3. Archiving ensures the trustworthiness of information
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Statement Users must be able to assess the trustworthiness of the preserved information. Rational Archiving should ensure that all preservation or management actions are transparent and sufficiently documented touphold the trustworthiness of the preserved information. These include actions carried out on both an archive as whole or individual pieces of data and metadata. Implications ‒ Both preservation and data management activities should support the ability to trace changes in information packages and how those have changed the structure or content of information. Some examples of the documented changes are file format conversions or the splitting or merging of IPs. – When designing information systems, steps must be taken to ensure that all relevant processes create metadata, ideally automatically – Steps must be taken to ensure that the metadata and documentation created by people or systems remain available and usable as long as necessary Notes (if any) See information principle 8.) on how to underpin trustworthiness.