Horizons and challenges of digital preservation in the age of Open Science [Editorial]

Abstract

This editorial introduces volume 4 (2023) of the Revista Brasileira de Preservação Digital (RBPD), consolidating the journal as an essential forum for safeguarding digital heritage within the Open Science landscape. Faced with the challenge of keeping data accessible and authentic over the long term, the collected works offer a comprehensive theoretical and practical overview that includes the evaluation of repositories under international guidelines, normative analyses of systems like SEI, and discussions from the SINPRED Dossier. The edition covers everything from web archiving workflows and comparative studies of editorial policies (SciELO and Elsevier) to bibliometric research on global scientific production in the field. It also discusses document governance in Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES), Citizen Science indicators, data management plans for indigenous peoples based on the FAIR and CARE principles, audiovisual metadata standards, the application of the OAI-ORE protocol, and the convergences between archival theories and new technologies in memory institutions. The volume concludes with an exclusive interview with Miguel Ángel Márdero Arellano, who provides a diagnosis of the preservation of academic outputs on both a national and global scale.