ARCHANGEL

The ARCHANGEL project officially kicks off today, following successful funding proposal to the UKRI/EPSRC Digital Economy Programme's Applications of Distributed Ledger Technology (ADLT) call. ARCHANGEL will explore ways to fingerprint digital records and store those fingerprints in a Blockchain - a kind of tamper-proof database maintained by many organisations (such as national archives). This will enable archives to prove the integrity and provenance of their records. ARCHANGEL is more than a technology project - it will work closely with archives in the UK and abroad to study how this technology can transform archival practice for the digital age. ARCHANGEL is a 2 year project funded by the EPSRC and uniting expertise from the University of Surrey, Tim Berners-Lee's Open Data Institute, and The National Archives... ARCHANGEL creates assurances of digital record integrity using distributed ledger technology (Blockchain). Blockchain is best known as the technology underpinning..

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