Preservação da informação digital nos arquivos das IFES da Região Sul do Brasil

Abstract

With the constantly increasing use of technology focused to production, sharing and use of information, become institutions holding significant collections in digital format. This study aims to verify the existence and implementation of strategies for digital preservation of archival information in the Archives of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) in Southern Brazil by examining it’s implications for long-term preservation. From the collection of data in the IFES, portrays the landscape of digital preservation in Southern Brazil, highlighting the factors that undermine the development of actions aimed at safeguarding digital objects. From the analysis of data collected, it appears that the institutions surveyed offer solutions incipient front of their management and preservation of archival information, in traditional, and consequently, in the digital environment.