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Defining Digital Legacy Management Systems’ Requirements

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Nowadays, there is an increasing number of new digital systems and functionalities focused on digital legacy management. In this paper, our goal was to analyze digital legacy management systems - DLMS - from three perspectives (theoretical, systemic, and users’) and propose/discuss software requirements. The three viewpoints were analyzed together and in an exploratory approach. The proposal is to classify DLMS into two types: dedicated systems and integrated systems. The results from our study can help software engineers and designers to better understand the complex cultural practices and their technical counterparts in this domain, thus contributing to a discussion on DLMS, their requirements and challenges to their development.

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This work was carried out with support from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). The authors would like to thank Gustavo Seiji Ueda for the previously published contributions to this research.

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  2. Faculty of Gama, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

    Fabiana Freitas Mendes

  3. Languages Institute, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil

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Maciel, C., Mendes, F.F., Pereira, V.C., Yamauchi, E.A. (2022). Defining Digital Legacy Management Systems’ Requirements. In: Filipe, J., Śmiałek, M., Brodsky, A., Hammoudi, S. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08965-7_13

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