O uso de metadados para a preservação digital no Arquivo da Marinha: a implementação do Software ICA-AToM

Abstract

The present work investigates the aplication of the free software Ica atom in one of the biggest brazilian archives: the Marine Archive. This software was created to work in the internet and based in archivistic international rules, like the international rule of register of archivistic authority to group entities, people and families ISAAR (CPF), the international rule of archivistic description ISAD(G) and the International standard for describing institutions with archival holdings-ISDIAH. Despite of being created based on rules indicated by the international Council of Archives - CIA, this work questions until what point the ICA-AToM answers to the process of documental description of the Marine Archive. To mesure the eficiency of this software, in order to garantee the access to the documents of the Marine Archive, a comparison of the metadatas used in the version of ICA-AToM, situated in the Marine Archive with the metadatas stablished by the brazilian archivistic rule of description (NOBRADE), is done in the analysis and by the “modelo de requisitos para sistemas informatizados de gestão arquivistica de documentos” - e-ARQ Brasil. There was an attempt to understand each one of the metadatas especyfied in these rules and relate them to the possible advantages of their use. The result of these comparisons was the realization of a group of metadatas and sugestions for that Marine Archive can optimize the use of this software and of its archivistic description, which is fundamental in the ensuring task the access and preservation of its collection.