Arquivabilidade de acervos arquivísticos no Tainacan: um estudo de caso no Museu Gama D’Eça da UFSM

Abstract

The research addresses a valuable collection in quantity and quality, with archival relevance, belonging to the Gama d'Eça Museum, linked to the Dean of Extension (PRE) of the Federal University of Santa Maria. With more than thirteen thousand pieces, its historical value is incalculable, including three-dimensional objects and a specific volume of documents. The focus is on documents belonging to the collection of the Victor Bersani Museum, which was incorporated through a donation to the Gama d'Eça Museum in 1981. Interest in the topic arose after the author's participation in a project at the Gama d'Eça Museum, where the need for document management, security policies and evaluation, conservation and preservation protocols was identified. The objective of this work is to survey the Museum's archival reality, highlighting the importance of the museum's documentary collection in archival studies. To this end, a context about a new technology is addressed, the Tainacan software, making part of the document collection available, resulting in an exploratory and analytical investigation of the software's archivability, considering technical, organizational an