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snyderb.de
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Mar 15, 2017

Public Archives and Retention Schedules via Blockchain

Hello -   I'm the new IT Consultant at a State Public Archives Agency... We are in the middle of deciding to move to Azure/AWS/IBM; some other third-party company...  andbecause we are already in t...
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Daragh Morrissey
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Mar 15, 2017

It's a broad question ;) Blockchain in itself is not an Archival System. It could supplement an Archiving system by ensuring that documents have not been tampered by hashing the content.

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    snyderb.de
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 15, 2017

    Yeah I know it's not appropriate for archivals at all (trying to explain that to state employees is hard... because they hear "Decentralized and Distributed" and it's a job in of itself to cut through all the buzzspeak honestly) but this is a cool example of using the tech in conjunction with data storage...

     

    thank you for the reply!