Usually, electronic record-keeping demands using standards. This way you ensure that the electronic records are kept in a exchangeable and platform independent way.

Electronic record-keeping in practice, usually means appealing to standards. This way you insure yourself that electronic records are preserved in an exchangeable and platform independent way. In the margin of the DAVID project, research is being done to establish which standards are applicable and how they can be used. A description of the standards for charactersets, textual, graphical and audio-visual electronic documents, magentic carriers and optical media can be found in this document. (Dutch only)(version 4.3: Oct.2003) ( ).

Some form of XML ( eXtensible Markup Language) is used in most archiving cases. XML can be used in several different ways when archiving electronic records: exchanging format, archiving format (), metadata format () and encasing format (). Read more on this and an the overall characteristics of XML in <XML/> en digitaal archiveren.()

	XML Topic Maps is a new technologie that can be used to register the knowledge on archives and their context and making records accessible. The exact nature of topic maps and how archivists can use them, is clarified in the contribution XML Topic Maps for electronic record-keeping (). An on line example can be viewed here:()
	Read our article in the Newsletter of Testbed Digitale Bewaring:(Dutch only)()