Long-term digital preservation supported by action plans: a systematic literature review

Abstract

The production of digital content is an usual drill practice in organizations. In order ensure reliability and access in long term to digital content, it is essential to implement digital preservation actions. Proper planning of preservation activities includes the development and institutionalization of a digital preservation policy and the implementation of guidelines established through the digital preservation plan, with the definition of procedures related to the maintenance and preservation of digital records for the long term. Thus, ones find out identify structures and experiences of digital preservation plan. Since, the method was used the systematic literature review. For the research, eight databases were selected, two specific from the Computer Science area, three from the Information Science area, one from the education area and two multidisciplinary databases. The searches were carried out on scientific articles evaluated by peers. The recovered contents include guidance on procedures related to the preparation of the digital preservation plan and its structural elements. The review showed the reduced exploitation of the term digital preservation plan and its associated contents in the scientific literature, an aspect that possibly indicates the recent use of the instrument as a guide for the development of digital preservation actions in institutions.