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Middleware Applied to Digital Preservation: A Literature Review

Authors:
Eriko Brito
Paulo Cesar Abrantes
Bruno de Freitas Barros

Keywords: Digital Curation; Digital Preservation; Reproducibility; Middleware

Abstract:
Maintaining digital collections available for humanity use at long term is a big challenge for the areas of digital preservation, management policies of curator centers and technologies for data reproducibility. This paper performs a literature review to investigate middleware options for digital preservation, listing its main features and applications. Seven solutions were found and it was concluded that the cataloged technological bases are mature enough, which indicates an optimistic future for the digital curation area.

Pages: 404 to 408

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-438-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015