Digital preservation: challenges, experiences and opportunities

challenges, experiences and opportunities

Abstract

The digital economy represents a new productive model in which the information professional must establish himself as a facilitating agent. The work object of the professional has changed from analogue to digital. This means adopting methods and having knowledge for your job that will preserve the digital resource for the time needed. From this, the manager should reflect on the nature and scope of preservation; in this way, it can assume a proactive role aimed at obtaining a sustainable electronic file. The present study aims to conceptualize preservation while increasing its complexity. It seeks to achieve two objectives. The first one focuses on exposing the most outstanding threats of the digital resource, while the second one is about exposing the scope of an action plan, as well as its basic actions. The study is characterized as being of a descriptive nature, based on bibliographic sources and the analysis of the technological and normative tools used in preservation. The expected results are as follows: list of the most significant threats, identification of the approaches needed to address preservation, reconceptualization of preservation and, finally, determination of ways of acting.