A preservação digital no Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The continuous advancement of digital technologies, which permeate all aspects of human life, has made this type of technology increasingly indispensable to our daily lives. Thus, all individuals in society need to adapt to these innovations and learn how to use them effectively, and this also includes Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). These, as the main promoters of scientific thought and production, have found in the digital environment an efficient way to store, disseminate, share and preserve their productions through their institutional repositories (IRs). Since institutional repositories need to guarantee the reliability of the documents under their guardianship, this research has as its main objective to propose requirements for the implementation of a digital preservation policy for the institutional repository of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). The theoretical framework addresses digital preservation, its methods and applications. The research is exploratory in nature and has a qualitative approach and descriptive character, using bibliographic and documentary research. This enables a greater understanding of digital preservation and how it is applied in the institutional repositories of some HEIs, including UFC, which do not have their own preservation policies for their repositories. A framework model of guidelines for UFC's IR is presented, which can be applied to any interested institution. This highlights the need for IRs to constantly seek to improve their digital preservation practices.