Brazilian postal memory in the Public Archive of Pernambuco

Abstract

Presents the project Legacy of Brazilian Postal Memory: curation of the General Mail Fund of the Public Archive of Pernambuco. Action taken in 2018, coordinated by the Imago Research Group and Digital Humanities of the Federal University of Pernambuco. It had as partners the State Public Archive Jordão Emerenciano, the company 3Ecologias Inovação e Pesquisa, and was financed from the public call by the Fund of Incentive to the Culture of Pernambuco. Its purpose was to preserve original documents and provide public access to Brazilian postal documentary heritage consisting of documents dating from 1818 to 1840, guarded in volume 1 of that Fund. The project included professionals in areas such as History, Computing, Archivology, Journalism and Information Science, as well as students of the Librarianship course from that University. Readings and debates were held on themes of common interest to the above mentioned areas, paleographic and descriptive technical training for archival documents, according to the policies envisaged by the National Archives Board and the Brazilian Standard for Archival Description, as well as periodic meetings to minimize doubts about the use of software Atom and Archivematica. It concluded that there is an urgent need to think, debate and create policies that aim first to foster the development of collections, the organization of collections of memorials, the formation and long-term preservation of networks and digital contents of diverse and distinct memory institutions, considering the relevance the formation of a multidisciplinary team.