Long-term Strategies for Electronic Recordkeeping in a Large Infrastructure Project

Recordkeeping is about "making and maintaining complete, accurate and reliable evidence of business transactions in the form of recorded information."Yet the research on electronic record management systems (ERMS) has not focused on the problem of long-term preservation of electronic records. The aim of this paper has been to further elaborate the challenges lon-gterm preservation impose on recordkeeping strategies and when the record quality criteria of evidentiality, integrity, authenticity of records is to be fulfilled. The research has been carried out as a qualitative case study in a large railway infrastructure construction project, where many records are operational for more than 100 years. In this research we can conclude that the long-term preservation issue is difficult to take into consideration if proactive strategies are not adopted. It is also important not to separate the current recordkeeping strategy from long-term recordkeeping strategy.