Towards a Decision Support Architecture for Digital Preservation of Business Processes
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.Details
- Creators
- Martin Alexander Neumann; Michael Beigl; Rudolf Mayer; Hossein Miri; John Thomson; Goncalo Antunes
- Institutions
- Date
- 2012-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- ischool; toronto; canada; digital preservation; decision support; business processes
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
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