Digital Repositories as environments of archivist action: a study of the archival principles and digital preservation in this context

Abstract

Introduction: The digital repositories have emerged from the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the Open Access movement (OA), becoming key players in pushing forward the process of scientific communication and being used by educational institutions and research for the preservation of the institutional memory from the self archiving of various types of documents.
Objective: The purpose is, from these assumptions, show how digital repositories environments acting Archivist and relate them to archival principles and approach to digital preservation.
Methodology: For this, we carried out a qualitative study and exploratory literature from national and international scientific literature published in books, articles, theses and dissertations for achieving the objective of the research.
Results: Demonstrated the equivalence of the classification adopted in digital repositories using the DSpace software environments with files. The results have demonstrated the relationship between the environments of digital repositories with archival principles and digital preservation.
Conclusion: We conclude that digital repositories can be understood as informational environments that file already have the key to the development of archival practices, configuring it as a new possibility of acting of the archivist, which needs to be aligned with the development of ICT.