Updates regarding Noark + blockchain?

[Thomas Sødring]

Hi Gareth,

The project finished a while back but I have to finalise the report. We 
did manage to get a peer reviewed article out of the project. Petter has 
a copy on his blog:

http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blockchain_and_IoT_articles_accepted_into_Records_Management_Journal.html

I think the main gist of the work is in the article, but the report will 
probably have a little more information about the approach.

It did actually result in a change to nikita as well. We introduced an 
event handler that responded to CRUD-events and published metadata about 
these events to a single-instance blockchain we developed called 
simplechain (https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/simplechain):

   https://nikita.oslomet.no/simplechain-gui/

Unfortunately nothing is responding at that address at the moment as the 
nikita server was recently upgraded and not all databases were migrated. 
I'll see if I can fill it with some information and drop a mail here.

Interestingly the result is that it may be possible to publish a 
change-log from a database for authenticity purposes and Noark has a 
number of properties that make it of particular interest for use with 
blockchain. I think one of the main take-aways has to be that if trusted 
timestamping solves your authenticity issue then use that not 
blockchain.  Feel free to post follow up questions or come join us on 
IRC, we would be happy to discuss this in more detail.

  - Thomas

On 6/10/21 2:58 PM, Gareth Western wrote:
>
> Hello! I stumbled across an old thread discussing the use of 
> blockchain with Nikita [1]. Did that ever materialize into anything 
> concrete?
>
>  1. https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2017-April/000196.html
>
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