Modeling the Value of Digital Preservation Activities
Diogo Proença, Jose M. Tribolet, Jose Luis Borbinha · Procedia Computer Science · 2016
Digital Preservation has emerged as a key challenge for information systems in many domains and is often seen as a case of interoperability through time. However, the complexity and change rate of common environments and information representations today have the effect that this interoperability is rarely achieved. In order to successfully address this issue we must look at the organizational challenges that Digital Preservation poses to organizations such as identifying and modeling all the value transactions that happen in certain organizational scenarios regarding the ingestion, archival and dissemination or reuse of digital objects, environments and libraries. It is only within a well-defined framework that deployment of any Digital Preservation techniques will successfully yield value to the organization in the form of continually useful and accessible information. In this paper we define the value model for the Digital Preservation business based on best practice from this domain, namely the ISO14721 and best practice from the Enterprise Engineering and Value Modelling domains, which include DEMO and e3value.