University of Pittsburgh Electronic Records Project
n.a research endeavor based at the University of Pittsburgh from 1993 to 1996 that identified functional requirements for preserving evidence in digital formBantin and Bernbom 1996, 251In June, 1995, IU began a two year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and Indiana University to implement functional analysis methodology and to test the ideas regarding functional requirements for recordkeeping systems and the critical role of metadata put forward by David Bearman, Richard Cox, and the project personnel associated with the University of Pittsburgh Electronic Records Project.Duff 1996, 28The University of Pittsburgh Electronic Records Project, a three year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, identified a set of nineteen functional requirements for electronic evidence.Bantin and Bernbom 1998The IU Project was designed to implement and test the “Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping” model developed by David Bearman, Richard Cox, and the project personnel associated with the University of Pittsburgh Electronic Records Project.Day 1998aUsing migration, it is important to ensure that preserved documents are what the US National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) funded University of Pittsburgh Electronic Records Project describe (in an archives context) as “inviolate”, “coherent” and “auditable.”Day 1998bThe University of Pittsburgh Electronic Records Project, for example, has defined a metadata model for business-acceptable communications that emphasises the preservation of a record's “evidentiality.”Duff and McKemmish 2000, 7It also specifies the attributes that records need to function effectively as evidence, drawing extensively in this regard on the Functional Requirements for Evidence developed by the University of Pittsburgh's Electronic Records Project (see www.sis.pitt.edu/-nhprc/progl.html).Acker 2017, 296The 1990s saw two influential research projects that sought to identify the functional requirements for preserving electronic evidence: the University of Pittsburgh Electronics [sic] Records Project (hereafter, the Pittsburgh Project) and the UBC-MAS Research Project.
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The National Historical Publications and Records Commission funded the undertaking, which was known formally as “Variables in the Satisfaction of Archival Requirements for Electronic Records Management.” Colloquial names for the venture included the Pittsburgh Electronic Records Project, Pittsburgh Project, and Pitt Project. Information on its activities are available via the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/19991128204345/http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~nhprc/evidence.html.
