Modeling digital preservation capabilities in enterprise architecture

The rising awareness of the challenges of preserving information over the long term has led to a wealth of initiatives developing economic models, methods, tools, systems, guidelines and standards for digital preservation. The challenge of digital preservation is to assure that information nowadays coded and stored in digital formats can be read and be used in an unforeseen future. This is an interdisciplinary problem combining organizational and technical challenges. However, to date there is no unified view on how to approach the problem from a holistic perspective and align organizational and technical issues in a systems engineering approach. Organizations that aim to add digital preservation to their abilities generally have difficulties to assess their existing systems and what capabilities and components they are missing in order to address the needs of trustworthy information longevity. In this paper we present an approach that enables us to accommodate the concerns of digita...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: DGO
• Authors: Christoph Becker, Gonçalo Antunes, José Barateiro, Ricardo Vieira, José Luis Borbinha
• Keywords: Capability Model, Computing And Information Systems, DGO 2011, Education, Information Longevity