nown as authentication, essential in appraising the value of an item. See also: forge
ry. [Computer and Information Sciences] 
n., Authenticity and genuineness of photographs examine the photograph as a physical object and a visual image. It is here that
n., The specification of the elements of form and context that need to be preserved in order to maintain the authenticity of a given type of electronic record. [Archives] 
composition, the correspondence between the image and reality it depicts, and the rel