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It is a requirement of archival preservation to be able to update records\u2019 metadata in order not only to guarantee authenticity after digital preservation actions but also to ensure that relationships to other records, which might be created after an original record has entered the archive (and has been registered in a blockchain), can be maintained. The need to maintain an archival bond, which represents a network of relationships between aggregation of records, i.e., the relationship connecting previous and subsequent records belonging to the same activity, is a prime example of this requirement. This paper explores realisation of the archival bond in the context of blockchain-based archival system by proposing a supporting database system which enables metadata to be changed as required but also significantly simplifies searching compared to searching on-chain information, while keeping the immutability characteristic of blockchain.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computers10080091","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,21]],"date-time":"2021-07-21T11:53:23Z","timestamp":1626868403000},"page":"91","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Digital Archives Relying on Blockchain: Overcoming the Limitations of Data Immutability"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6925-4402","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hrvoje","family":"Stan\u010di\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}]},{"given":"Vladimir","family":"Brali\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica, 10410 Velika Gorica, Croatia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Lemieux, V.L., and Feng, C. 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