A new national standard for electronic documents

This paper analyzes the recently approved GOST R 7. 095–2015. Electronic Documents. Main Types, Output Information, and Technological Characteristics national standard that considers an electronic document as a component of librarian and archival funds, as well as formulating the signs that permit an electronic object to be attributed to the class of documents. The type of an electronic document determines its functionality, which in turn causes the technological requirements for the material implementation of the document (in particular, the requirements for formats). Due to the specificity of data processing in the electronic environment, an electronic document exists as many equivalent implementations and any work with it, including displaying, is the continuous creation of these implementations. In this regard, the technological operation of copying leads not to creating a document of a new type (a “copy”) but only to the origin of a new implementation that is equivalent to any other. Hence, there is a need for a set of identification characteristics (attributes) for electronic documents.