Recent and current projects

In recent years, Dr. Juan Voutssas M. has developed particular areas of research related to digital and semantic libraries, digital and semantic archives, long-term digital preservation of reliable archives, ICT security and risks, training of human resources in management and archival preservation, planning and development of applied projects about information; structure and representation of information and knowledge: taxonomies, ontologies, metalanguages, metadata, formats, indexing, layouts, etc., and its relation to digital libraries and archives.

From 2008 to 2012, he coordinated the Mexican 'TEAM' of the "InterPARES" project, an international research group which includes fifteen countries and regions on the issue of long-term preservation of reliable digital archives. In March 2012 the third stage of this project ended, called "InterPARES 3," whose results are shown in the international page "InterPARES 3 Web Site", or specifically the production of InterPARES Mexican TEAM in Spanish at the "InterPARES 3 IIBI Web Site".

As part as this project in 2011 a "Diploma in Management and Preservation of Digital Archives", first of its kind in Mexico was designed and delivered.

In 2012 a new phase of the project called "InterPARES-Trust" begun; it has proposed a new research project named "Records in the Cloud", which aims to study the benefits and risks of keeping records in the Cloud. See complete proposal of Records in the Cloud

From 2012 to 2018 the new stage of the project, "InterPARES-Trust" expanded its objectives to establish theory, standars, practice and actions to create trust among users of digital archival records and other digital documents. On those years Juan Voutssas coordinated InterPARES Latin American TEAM in this project stage named "Trust" in digital records. See International Interpares Trust site and the English page of the InterPARES Spanish Website

Reciently, Juan Voutssas has continued other research projects about the subject of "Trust" in other digital documents and environments: libraries and the web.