Desenvolvimento e avaliação de um guia do fundo Sindicato da Indústria da Construção Civil de Santa Maria (SINDUSCON/SM) através do software livre ICA-ATOM

Abstract

Custody institutions of archival collections struggling to provide and manage archival descriptions on the Web. An alternative would be softwares that would allow the exchange of information between institutions and users, and to comply with the standards of description. With this purpose it was developed ICA-Atom, a free software application, multilingual, freely distributed and that fits the needs of archival institutions. That said, this study aims to analyze the degree of difficulty of use and th e possibilities offered by ICA-AtoM in developing a guide Document base of the Union of Construction Industry of Santa Maria, in order to evaluate the use of this Software. The evaluation focused on the ease of installation, adjustment to the descriptive standards, usability, resources available to users, the means of access to content and the results of the documentary description. As the results of the work are presented two versions of the Guide to the documentary, a digital version and a printing version. We point out, for final consideration, the points proposed in the analysis and the criteria evaluated.