title: Business Process Preservation: How to capture, document & evaluate?
creators: Stephan Strodl Daniel Draws Goncalo Antunes Andreas Rauber
abstract: Preserved digital data is often of limited use and value, due to the unavailability of the environment where the data has been generated, executed, analysed, and presented. The preservation of complete processes, including the supporting infrastructure, raises a number of new challenges. In highly computerized firms, processes are often based on service oriented architectures with services provided by third parties. Digital preservation of business processes requires keeping the data, software services and infrastructure available for long time spans. The strong intra- and interdependencies of components make modification and adoption for preservation highly complex. Besides the technical challenges, the organisation and legal aspects of a process need to be considered as well. Contracts for external services, licences for software, access rights to business data and national data regulations for sensible data have to be taken into account when preserving complex information systems. The TIMBUS project targets the research and development of methods and tools for preserving business processes over time. This poster presents a phased phases approach and the processes to capture and identify the relevant context, plan preservation actions and execute and store business process for the future.
keywords: ischool toronto canada digital preservation business process preservation infrastructure information systems