ato, Archilab, 2005), and the formal title of InterPARES 2 carries that terminology forward. However, in the course of the 
research, the term “electronic record” began to be gradually replaced by the term “digital record,” which has a less generic meaning, 
and by the end of the research cycle, the research team had developed separate definitions for the two terms and decided to use 
the latter as the one that better describes the object of InterPARES research. The definition for “electronic record” reads: