GLYPH<SM590000> Victorian Electronic Records Standard (VERS) 

VERS is an Australian standard developed by Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) to provide guidelines on capturing, managing and preserving electronic records in the state of Victoria.$^{3}$ For example, it defines that an electronic records format must be able to support evidence. Electronic records must be admissible as evidence and given due weight in a court of law. This requires the ability to prove that a record has not been altered in an unauthorized or undocumented fashion since creation and to demonstrate who created the record and when it was created. 

Although the other standards mentioned here really focus on requirements for a records management solution, VERS concentrates on defining a standard for the long-term preservation of electronic records. The intention is to ensure that an electronic record created today using current technology can fulfill these objectives: 

–  Be viewable in 10, 20, 50, or 100 years. The problem exists today. It is getting increasingly difficult to try to view a document that was created by a word processor 15 years ago, because current vendors drop support for these older formats. 

–  Have context, so that it is understood exactly where the record came from, who the author was, and what it is related to. 

## 1.10 Role of IBM Enterprise Records within the IBM Information Lifecycle Governance portfolio 

The IBM Information LIfecycle Governance (ILG) portfolio includes capabilities that legal, IT, records, and business users can use to help manage legal risk and to reduce data management and discovery costs. To achieve this, the ILG portfolio provides solutions for electronic discovery (eDiscovery), archiving, disposal, policy management, and records retention and management. The portfolio helps organizations manage enterprise information based on its business value, comply more efficiently with litigation and regulatory duties, and dispose of information when it is no longer required. Figure 1-8 on page 29 provides a high-level overview of the ILG portfolio. 

