Translations:Hoe bewaar je je digitaal archief?/5/en

Integrity means that the form, content and structure of a document are the same when you consult it as they were when it was created or received. For digital documents, we check the bit integrity. A bit is the smallest unit of information, and can be either 1 or 0. If the sequence of zeros and ones changes, the file is no longer identical and is therefore changed. Integrity checking is important for finding out whether a document's content is still the same and the file can still be opened.