A Study on Encapsulation Strategy for Electronic Records

• Main Authors: Hsuan-Ju Wu, 吳宣儒
• Other Authors: James C. Ouyang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30770774891437303093

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊與圖書館學系 === 92 === The study is aimed to sum up the concepts of Victorian Electronic Records Strategy from Australia through research articles and content analysis. The study also evaluates the feasibility of our government’s using encapsulation as the electronic records preservation approach through in-depth interviews. The conclusions are as follows: 1.VERS is totally designed for the long-term preservation of the electronic records. And it is a very thorough scheme, which has been implemented for years and still on-going. 2.Encapsulation strategy is a data-oriented electronic records preservation approach, which solves the fast program obsolescence problem and preserves the context, authenticity, and integrity of the records. 3.The use of security system, such as watermark, public key infrastructure, private key infrastructure, electronic signature, certification authority, guarantees the safety of the records and the system. 4.Private organizations, companies, and schools can also use encapsulation strategy. The study has the following recommendations: 1.Every organization should choose appropriate metadata according to various properties of encapsulated objects. 2.According to the Chinese code comparison, Chinese metadata recommends Unicode. However, in Taiwan we use various codes. Therefore, we should establish a conversion program and unify the use of Unicode in the near future. 3.To tackle the program obsolescence problem, the government should set up electronic records long-term preservation principles for all organizations to follow. 4.The design of the security system should emphasize the system instead of data encapsulation. This prevents the incident that when the system fails, the encrypted file cannot be opened. 5.In practice, the encapsulation strategy not only can be used for government file long-term preservation, but also serves a design foundation for private organizations and companies to implement their knowledge management system.