Digital preservation of heterogeneous data

Abstract

Digital preservation aims at maintaining digital objects and data accessible over long periods of time. The emerging context of e- Science imposes new scenarios and new requirements for digital preser- vation. This paper presents the main issues, current solutions and promi- nent projects for digital preservation and e-Science data management. Fi- nally, it presents the problem to be addressed, the solutions to explore, the proposed methodology and expected contributions of the associated PhD work.