he lifecycle and the continuum 
models; they reviewed and compared legislation and government policies from a number of 
different countries and at different levels of government, from the national to the municipal; they 
analyzed many metadata initiatives and developed a tool to identify the strengths and 
weaknesses of existing metadata schemas in relation to questions of reliability, accuracy and 
authenticity; and, once again, they studied the concept of trustworthiness and its components, 
reliability,