Preservar la producción académica digital para el futuro: políticas diseñadas en los repositorios de Argentina

Abstract

Digital preservation includes all fundamental actions to reproduce a digital document in a faithful way and to guarantee its accessibility beyond time and technology advances. The usual techniques to carry out this process require constant effort, as well as short, medium and long-term planning. In this way, the elaboration of policies that include the renewal of the recorded information and the updating of the data formats is what should guarantee the useful life of digital resources. This work examine, through the documentary analysis technique, the current policies of digital preservation in the 42 Argentine institutional repositories contained on the National System of Digital Repositories (SNRD), under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (MINCYT). Through the survey of their own information protection policies, available on their websites, we will show the perception and value that the institutions give to the preservation of their academic documents and the strategies or actions manifested in them to minimize the loss of information.