Digital repositories as the archivist's working environment

archival principles and digital preservation

Abstract

The digital repositories have emerged from the Open Archives Initiative and the Open Access movement, becoming key players in pushing forward the process of scientific communication and being used by educational institutions and research for the preservation of the institutional memory from the self-archiving of various types of documents. This way, it is understood that digital repositories can be environments acting Archivist and ask the question, therefore, what their relationships with archival principles and how these environments contribute to the preservation of digital archives. The purpose is, from these assumptions, show how digital repositories environments acting Archivist and relate them to archival principles and approach to digital preservation. For this, we carried out a qualitative study and exploratory literature from national and international scientific literature published in books, articles, theses, dissertations for achieving objectives of the research. The results have demonstrated the relationship between the environments of digital repositories with archival principles and digital preservation. This research provided important scientific and academic contributions to the field of Archival Science and with respect to archivist, you need to always be ahead of technological advances inherent in the constitution of the files, especially with regard to digital archives.