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The Knowledge Trust: A Proposal for a Blockchain Consortium for Digital Archives

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Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022)

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We present a modest proposal for a blockchain-based consortium to preserve and provide a consistent view of the global integrity of digital information currently scattered across various archives. Based on a number of real-world threats to centralized archives, our design provides increased and frequent integrity checks that can help detect and ameliorate data loss in digital archives.

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Notes

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    There is a copyright on “The Knowledge Trust” name held by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thanks to Gary Marchionini for permission for its use in this proposal.

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    https://filecoin.io/.

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    https://www.arweave.org/.

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    https://blog.dshr.org/2018/09/blockchain-solves-preservation.html.

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    https://www.oclc.org/en/home.html.

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  1. American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon

    Harry Halpin

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  1. University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Gianmaria Silvello

  2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Oscar Corcho

  3. CNR-ISTI – National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

    Paolo Manghi

  4. University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio

  5. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Koraljka Golub

  6. University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  7. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Antonella Poggi

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Halpin, H. (2022). The Knowledge Trust: A Proposal for a Blockchain Consortium for Digital Archives. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_35

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