# ARCHANGEL: Trusted Archives of Digital Public Documents

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08342 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.08342/

## Key facts

- Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 23 Apr 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 7 of 7)

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- [SImProv: Scalable Image Provenance Framework for Robust Content Attribution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.14245/) (2022)
- [Soft Redaction of Image Provenance via Zero-Knowledge Proofs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.07063/) (2026)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

We present ARCHANGEL; a de-centralised platform for ensuring the long-term integrity of digital documents stored within public archives. Document integrity is fundamental to public trust in archives. Yet currently that trust is built upon institutional reputation --- trust at face value in a centralised authority, like a national government archive or University. ARCHANGEL proposes a shift to a technological underscoring of that trust, using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to cryptographically guarantee the provenance, immutability and so the integrity of archived documents. We describe the ARCHANGEL architecture, and report on a prototype of that architecture build over the Ethereum infrastructure. We report early evaluation and feedback of ARCHANGEL from stakeholders in the research data archives space.