Digitalização nos centros de documentação: o caso do CPDOC e do CEDEM

Abstract

The world is evolving the same way in all areas of study that support the technology are also changing. Thus, when studying files realize that today it is also undergoing a major transformation. The paper, traditionally for millennia, is giving way to digital form, one that is visible only through a computer. However, the completion of the conversion to digital form requires some technical criteria. As a result, this paper aims, through a descriptive investigation, identification of procedures used for scanning documents for documentation centers of southeastern Brazil, through a study of two cases, and further analysis to check the completion of the archival treatment prior to scanning and if this process is in accordance with the functions of processing and management for scanned images. The method of approach is qualitative and the population selected for this research are the centers of documentation that already have implemented or are applying to scan in their collections. This study concluded that the documentation centers perform part of the archival processing of the documents before scanning them and that the processing and management for such images is also performed. It was found that the peculiarities that interfere with the scanning process are related to the existence or not of financial resources, particularly, among other features.