Plano de marketing para o acervo fotográfico do Departamento de Arquivo Geral da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

The photographic heritage of the General Archive Department (DAG) of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) is located on the ground floor of the Rectory in University City/Santa Maria. This collection has a large number of photographs that record the history of the first university founded in the city that was not the state capital, thus constituting an important source of scientific research and information. This study aims to develop a marketing plan to disseminate these photographs to the academic community. The DAG collection of has, approximately, 85.130 images on flexible negatives, which were produced between 1958 and 2002, and closed its production in the last year, giving way to digital photography, which are recorded on optical disks (CD), a total of 88 CDs, containing about three thousand images produced between 1998 to 2009. The search for information in the collection is made through an updated database, which was developed with the Microsoft Office Acces program. It is being implemented a new software for searching, called ICA-AtoM, a multilingual application for easy searching, covering the web environment and totally based on the International Standard for Describing Archives - ISAD(G), which structure is covered by the Brasilian Standard for Archival Description (NOBRADE). The researcher who comes to see the photographic collection must fill out a form containing basic identification information, however, as the marketing plan was established, a new form called Registration Data of the DAG Collection Photo Researchers was adopted, as a way to receive feedback of the information when needed. Based on information obtained from the researchers registration forms of the year 2005 to 2010, it was possible to see that the main research group consists of academics from the Media, Archival Science, History and Architecture and Urbanism courses. It can be best explored potential users, in other words, those who do not yet use the collection for reference, but may use it, they are: ordinary citizens, professionals who use this material as a raw material in their routine and virtual users. Once the collection is located at an Federal University, it doesn t intend to generate profits, so the marketing plan will focus on quality service to these two types of users. Thus, marketing strategies have been established in order to educational, cultural, editorial spread and with the use of computer resources. In this context, the marketing plan was formed from the redefinition of the information, adding new activities, along with those applied prior to the drafting of this project, employing tactics that are best suited to this type of collection. It is observed that there are many marketing strategies that can be deployed, most are accessible, low cost and easy applicable.