Redocumentarization: innovation in the treatment of digitized permanent documents

Abstract

The present text derives from a larger and interdisciplinary study that sought to elucidate the impacts found in the process of consultation and organization of the archival document, digitized. Study processes in Spain, as applied in Brazil, aimed the search for contrasts and approximations in relation to the procedures between the two academic traditions. For exploratory purposes, we gather testimonies from archivists, documentarists and historians, Brazilians and Spaniards. The professionals interviewed were intentionally defined. Here, we discuss the little-known and not widespread “redocumentarization” process, presenting its use in the context of archives of permanent age. Covering the fundamentals of Diplomatics, Archival Science, Document Management and Information Technology, we understand that this process provides a broad set of requirements, to provide a better way of making permanent virtual collections available, either by remote or local access. We also present one of the projects that we think best fit within the conceptual foundations of our study, the Portal of Spanish Archives Project, PARES.