Preservação de documentos digitais em arquivos: desafios do sec. XXI

Abstract

This research aims at identifying strategies to preserve digital documents in archives, thus expanding the knowledge in this area in order to facilitate their transfer to future generations. To identify those strategies four specific aims were formulated: a) to present the current strategies for preserving digital documents in archives; b) to identify in the literature the criteria of digital preservation in archives; c) to identify in the literature the policies of digital preservation in archives; d) to gather knowledge about the needs of digital preservation of archival documents. It was found by reviewing the literature in Archival Science that the digital preservation is a study object that proposes standards, rules, policies, procedures and criteria (for digital preservation). In order to understand the theoretical and methodological approaches that have been published, there was a data collection of references on the topic of preserving digital documents in archives searching mainly recent texts related to Archival Science. Firstly, a selection of materials found in databases online (Portal CAPES periodical), articles, theses, texts, web pages, books and conference proceedings has been made. In otder to have a better organization of research material a table has been created containing: the author's name, title, file name, file type and year. This descriptive research has showed that digital preservation is related to storage capacity, migration and dissemination of information, which is most often administered centrally. In order to solve such problems there are various proposals today for digital preservation. Among the current most used strategies, presented in this research it is clear that the technique most widely used and quoted by the authors is the migration, as it is the most feasible and reliable to be deployed and it is also focused on the content and not only on the support. Preserving not only the content itself but also its support is of fundamental importance.