PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL DOCUMENTS AS A NATIONAL STRATEGY TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY AND MEMORY
PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL DOCUMENTS AS A NATIONAL STRATEGY TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY AND MEMORY
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5584282417095
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Palavras-chave: documentos digitales, preservación digital, política de preservación, estrategias de preservación digital.
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Keywords: digital documents, digital preservation, preservation policy, digital preservation strategies.
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Abstract:
The fourth industrial revolution has reached us, bringing with it innovations, challenges and even new paradigms, where technological advances play a major role in terms of access to information and shortening distances and times. To this end, organizations are betting on the use of technology and with it, electronic documents to maximize their effectiveness and at the same time be more efficient. In this scenario, the immaterial is becoming the only evidence of our knowledge and our footprint as a society, which makes it urgent to implement techniques and methods to ensure the preservation of organizational and collective memory, but also to ensure evidence of legality and transparency in the management of organizations. ISO 13008:2012 defines preservation as: “The processes and operations performed to ensure the intellectual and technical permanence of authentic documents over time” (p. 8); therefore, digital preservation must ensure access to digital information in the long term, maintaining the value of its significant properties, in a constantly evolving environment; reason why the challenges must consider technological obsolescence. In addition to the above, the set of documents in digital support grows in the absence of regulations, making difficult the preservation of essential documents for the administration and decision making, it is urgent to have a national strategy to ensure the authenticity, durability and access to digital documents; one of the most pressing challenges of the time. The preservation of evidence and history contained in digital documents strengthens transparency, administrative management in general, ensures citizens to enjoy and maintain their rights. Developing a national policy and digital preservation strategies that ensure access to documents, while guaranteeing their authenticity and integrity over time, is a duty to the homeland, citizens and new generations.
- Ma. Gabriela Castillo Solano
- Raquel Umaña Alpízar