Audit and certification throughout the archival digital chain of custody

Abstract

Objective: Discuss about audit and certification throughout the entire archival digital custody chain, covering all environments involved in the three external entities of the OAIS Model, analyzing the Brazilian scenario. Discuss the importance of the audit and certification process in all environments involved in the three external entities of the OAIS Model, analyzing the Brazilian scenario.
Methodology: Exploratory, bibliographical and documentary research, having as main documentary and bibliographic sources the documentation produced by different organizations, in the norms of the National Council of Archives and in scientific articles by national and international researchers.
Results: Discussion about the conceptual models of requirements and audit and certification, in the Brazilian scenario, for the three environments involved in the OAIS Model: the producer environment, which is the document management environment; the administrator's environment, which is the environment for preserving documents; the consumer environment, which is the environment for accessing and disseminating documents.
Conclusions: In the Brazilian scenario, there are models of requirements for the document management environment, but it does not establish audit and certification requirements; the preservation environment presents both functional and non-functional requirements and business rules, as well as audit and certification requirements; the environment for accessing and disseminating documents does not yet have established guidelines.