Digital Preservation Policies
The Revista Iberoamericana de Docencia, Investigación y Desarrollo, through digital preservation methods, ensures the intellectual content of electronic file documents, for long periods of time, maintaining their integrity, authenticity, unalterability, originality, reliability and accessibility.
Differences between preservation and backups
It is of the utmost importance that authors interested in the Revista Iberoamericana de Docencia, Investigación y Desarrollo know the difference between digital preservation and backup.
- Digital preservation is not responsible for backing up server data or daily work material, but safeguarding the high-quality digital resources that will be needed in the future. Preservation copies usually consist of a comprehensive recording of the material annually or from beginning of the year on media other than work platforms.
- Backups, for their part, are a mechanism to protect against unforeseen events such as disk breakage or data loss from exceptional situations such as blackouts, server disconnection, etc.; it basically protects information published on the server (digital resources plus catalog information) and digital resources in the process of being edited, in a comprehensive and systematic way.
For both cases, with the use of redundancy algorithms, it is verified that the data is kept as it has been recorded.
Definition of preservation policies
The Revista Iberoamericana en Docencia, Investigación y Desarrollo establishes digital preservation as the responsibility and commitment of all personnel involved in its editorial management. Its policy to carry it out is governed by:
- Storing digital resources with great care.
- The use of preservation strategies such as data rejuvenation, migration, technology preservation and digital archaeology; relevant assessments to verify their effectiveness.
- Encapsulating the preserved information along with descriptive metadata.
- Self-documentation from the encoding of preserved information, without reference to external documentation.
- Self-sufficiency as it minimizes system, data, or documentation dependencies.
The Revista Iberoamericana de Docencia, Investigación y Desarrollo uses LOCKSS and CLOCKSS.
