The Importance of the Digital Preservation of Data and Its Application in Universities

• Published in: Knowledge Management in Organizations pp. 345 - 353
• Main Authors: Lima, Juan Santillán, Molina-Granja, Fernando, Lozada-Yanez, Raul, Velasco, Danny, Peñafiel, Gonzalo Allauca, Castelo, Lourdes Paredes
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Subjects: Digital preservation; Intellectual capital; PREDECI; Preservation of data
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81635-3_28
• ISBN: 9783030816346; 3030816346
• ISSN: 1865-0929

The article is the result of a documentary investigation concerning the digital preservation of data and the generation of data and its importance in educational institutions. Digital information has important economic value as a cultural product and as a source of knowledge, but this generated information must be preserved, without information, there is no inheritance or culture. Digital heritage is not subject to temporal, geographic, cultural or format limits. But the digital heritage of the world is in danger of being lost for posterity, which is why it is important to preserve them in an adequate manner so that they are accessible, authentic and usable in the long term, under international professional standards. Data in digital form is the main source of knowledge for our students. The repositories in the educational institutions allow not only to store the intellectual production but also the documentation created by the administrative part of the universities. The intellectual capital of universities should not only be stored but also preserved and made known to the community. It is important to investigate adequate techniques for the digital preservation of data in universities, applying or generating digital preservation models that adapt to the unique characteristics of universities.