Digital preservation: exploratory study on scientifi literature and collaborative social networks in Brazil

Abstract

Presents a mapping carried out in the Information Science Database on digital preservation, aiming to identify the authors, institutions and scientifi journals that disseminated this theme in Brazil between 2000 and 2019. It is based on an exploratory and descriptive study with a qualitative and quantitative approach of analyzed data. It uses the Social Network Analysis methodology to characterize the relationships of the co-authoring networks that are established via scientifi production on the subject in question. The final corpus was made up of 61 articles, which point to a growing interest in publications on the subject in Information Science, highlighting 24 scientific journals that published these researches and 25 institutions where researchers in the area are concentrated. In the analysis of networks, scientifi collaboration is highlighted as a practice in the production of disseminated knowledge, although this network is formed by subnets, which characterizes it as fragmented and of low density.