Programa de preservação do Centro de Pesquisas Genealógicas de Nova Palma - RS: digitalizando e difundindo o acervo de famílias como um plano piloto

Abstract

This research has as its theme the preservation and diffusion of the documents of immigrants who migrated around 1878 in the Fourth Italian Immigration Colony, in Brazil, with important historical value, to prove and report data of people who lived and contributed to the region growth. The questioning which motivates this study is whether the digitization will enable to continuing a preservation program for the Genealogical Research Center (GRC), as an auxiliary tool in accessing and disseminating of the families collection. The general objective of this study is to analyze the receptivity of conservation actions, access and diffusion in the collection of the pioneer families of Nova Palma from the reformatting use as a pilot plan for the GRC Preservation Program of Nova Palma. Besides that, the creation of a preservation program has been proposed, starting with a pilot project for the preservation of the documents of Italian families, in order to adopt adequate procedures for the preventive conservation and later diffusion of the families’ memory. Based on its characteristics, the present paper is a descriptive research, since it intent to describe the opinion of a target public, concerning to the researchers and users of GRC of Nova Palma, applying standard techniques for data collection, which the approach is qualitative. Thus, it was decided to use the digitization tool in documents considered as documentary heritage, aiming at its conservation and access. The tool should also serve to disseminate the documents produced and received by the former families of immigrants who migrated for Nova Palma.