rm Preservation of Digital Records1 
Introduction 
The InterPARES research projects have examined the creation, maintenance and 
preservation of digital records. A major finding of the research is that, to preserve trustworthy 
digital records (i.e., records that can be demonstrated to be reliable, accurate and authentic), 
records creators must create them in such a way that it is possible to maintain and preserve 
them. This entails that a relationship between a records creator2 and its designated preserv