-Data Integrity for Librarians, Archivists, and Criminals: What We Can Steal from Bitcoin, BitTorrent, and Usenet, Jeffrey Spies (Center for Open Science)
Data integrity is important in distributed systems, and the same characteristics that make these systems robust make maintaining data integrity challenging. For this reason, hash functions play a central role in the algorithms and technologies that power Usenet, BitTorrent, and Bitcoin and its blockchain. This presentation introduces hashes and their variants, these distributed and sometimes dubious systems, and what can be learned and practically applied in today's digital repositories for purposes of auditing, identifying, recovering, and sharing data.
Also from this meeting, released previously:
-Institutional Repository Strategies: What We Learned at the Executive Roundtables, Clifford Lynch (CNI)
-Fresh Perspectives on the Future of University-Based Publishing, Amy Brand (The MIT Press)
-What Today’s Students Have Taught Us, Alison J. Head (Project Information Literacy)