Modelo de referência para diagnóstico da obsolescência tecnológica e desenvolvimento de uma solução computacional visando a preservação digital do conhecimento científico: caso BDTD/UFSCar

Abstract

In the contemporary knowledge society, universities are increasingly valued for what they produce and disclose: they earn credibility as they externalize the knowledge produced, making available your content on the web. Much of this knowledge is now registered in digital documents, due to the ease of creation and mainly of access. With an increase in the generation of information in digital format and its rapid technological obsolescence, a new challenge and fundamental requirement arises in this context: digital preservation. Given its importance to libraries university students, the general objective of this research is to develop a computational framework for the digital preservation of scientific knowledge, based on a diagnosis of the technological obsolescence of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations of the Community Library of the UNiversidade Federal de São Carlos (BDTD / UFSCar), object of study of the research. Action research was the method used and comprised diagnostic activities of technological obsolescence, based on in a framework of reference requirements necessary for digital preservation, constructed from articles dealing with the theme. After the diagnosis, a computational solution based on free software was developed for the digital preservation of scientific knowledge produced by Graduate Programs Graduation from UFSCar. The results achieved were: 1) formatting and application of a reference structure to support the diagnosis process of the BDTD / UFSCar's technological obsolescence status; 2) development of a computational solution for the digital preservation of scientific knowledge. The reference structure and the computational solution presented contribute to the digital preservation initiatives in university libraries, by making available a system for assessing technological obsolescence and a solution involving the preservation process called Refreshment. The results ensure that the cultural, historical and scientific contribution of the scientific community UFSCar, expressed more and more through manifestations of digital documents, can be continuously accessed, in terms of content and functionality through the technological resources available at the time, having guaranteed its integrity, authenticity and reliability.