The Design and Implementation of Blockchain Technology in Academic Resource’s Authoritative Metadata Records: Enhancing Validation and Accountability

This study endeavors to address the growing needs of research intuitions to unify the MARC metadata records as they are passed between systems. To support research intuitions in locating and track resources the MARC metadata records provide a backbone for research and tracking purposes. However, the MARC records are not unified across the many distributed systems, and this results in confusing and fuzzy record logic. To assist in remedying the fuzzy MARC logic, this study attempts to assimilate a metadata record into a custom blockchain to allow for unification, accountability, and validation of a MARC metadata authority record.