Digitally Born Records: Acquisition, Long-Term Preservation and Confirmation of Long-Term Legal Validity

The article is devoted to the identification and possible solution of problems associated with transfer of digitally born (electronic) records to archives, ensuring their long-term preservation, integrity and legal significance for further use. The author notes that at present conceptual approaches to the construction of a system for the acquisition of electronic records by state archives, organization of their stock-taking, storage and use have been developed. These archival processes are supposed to be performed in four stages. For the storage of electronic records, it is planned to create a centralized repository of electronic documents based on the cloud service. However, a number of issues still require a solution. Some of them are in the legal sphere, others are of a technological nature. The traditional problem for archivists is the limited financial resources necessary to implement the plan.