Abstract

This study proposes the introduction of significant properties to ensure the four major attributes of records: authenticity, integrity, reliability, and usability during the digitization process of paper records. Records digitization projects promoted by public institutions focus on reproducing the appearance and content of records. Records created mainly through scanning have different characteristics from electronic records created digitally from the time of production, so they require additional significant properties that must be preserved in addition to appearance and content. The current ｢Selection Criteria for Preservation Format of Digital Records (v1.0)｣ targets records created in electronic form, making it difficult to apply to records that are digitized from analogue records. With the enforcement of the ｢Special Act on Domestic Adoption｣ in 2025, a large number of adoption records scattered across domestic adoption agencies will have to be acquired by the National Center for the Rights of the Child. In the acquisition process, adoption records are expected to be digitized for utilization and preservation, so adoption record digitization that preserves significant properties such as appearance, content, structure, context, and function is necessary. This study aims to contribute to the establishment of a long-term preservation strategy by deriving the attributes that are essential to be preserved during the digitization process for the adoption records among paper records with a permanent retention period and suggesting a direction for digitization based on these.