title: Towards a Decision Support Architecture for Digital Preservation of Business Processes
creators: Martin Alexander Neumann Michael Beigl Rudolf Mayer Hossein Miri John Thomson Goncalo Antunes
abstract: In this paper, we present and address a number of challenges in digital preservation of entire business processes: (1) identifying digital objects a business process depends on (“What to preserve and why?”); (2) identifying significant changes in digital objects (“When to preserve and why?”); (3) determining a re-deployment setting (“What to re-deploy and why?”). After highlighting these challenges, we illustrate some aspects of business processes that are relevant in the context of digital preservation and provide a model to capture their semantics formally. We, then, proceed to present a decision support architecture to address the challenges using the developed model. We, finally, conclude the paper by discussing the applicability of our proposed model and its associated techniques.
keywords: ischool toronto canada digital preservation decision support business processes