Charge:
To investigate blockchain technologies and related ERM impacts. Determine whether the OhioERC may want to develop guidance documents or tip sheets regarding the topic of blockchain technologies as a resource for Ohio public agencies.
Subcommittee goals and outcomes:
- Provide basic level of understanding of blockchain to records managers
- Outline the advantages, disadvantages, and how those change with public versus private blockchains
- Outline the role records managers and archivists should play in blockchain projects
- Who should be at the table during blockchain projects and what should their role(s) entail
- Use cases for types of records that could benefit from blockchain and types that might be better suited in a different format
- Identify potential legal implications
Members:
- Pari Swift, Records Manager, The Ohio State University (chair)
- John Runion, Records Manager, Stark County
- Eira Tansey, Digital Archivist/Records Manager, University of Cincinnati
- Doug McCollough, Chief Information Officer, City of Dublin (external)
- Adam Hansen, Imaging Lab Director & Records Manager, Lucas County Clerk of Courts (external)
- Dr. David Landsbergen, Associate Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University (external)
- Dan Noonan, Digital Preservation Librarian, The Ohio State University (external)