Peter Graham (1992) Protecting the Integrity of Electronically Archived Data . Psycoloquy: 3(55) Data Archive (2)
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Psycoloquy 3(55): Protecting the Integrity of Electronically Archived Data

PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONICALLY ARCHIVED DATA
Commentary on Skoyles on Data-Archiving

Peter Graham
Computing Services
Rutgers University
(908) 932-2741

GRAHAM@zodiac.rutgers.edu

Abstract

John Skoyles's (1992) recent proposal that psychological raw data be maintained on file servers as data archives is a good one and a bellwether for future use and provision of data. I wish to comment only on one aspect, that of data security: the data must be protected against modification by accident or intent, whether by its owner or by other users. Proposals of the kind Skoyles is making must from the beginning take the security and integrity issues into account.

Keywords

Data archiving, data security, data integrity, electronic retrieval, ftp, internet, fraud

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