Experiências arquivísticas e a digitalização de documentos históricos na Paraíba - Brasil

Abstract

Digitization facilitates access to documents in digital format, both by researchers and by civil society. This strategy of diffusion and democratization of information is also a form of preservation. From these perspectives, we present the results of two extension projects carried out in partnership between the Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies and Research Center (NEABI), Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil; Vanderbilt University, USA; and, British Library, England. EAP 627: Digitising endangered seventeenth to nineteenth century secular and ecclesiastical sources in São

João do Carirí e João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil; and EAP 853: Creating a digital archive of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century criminal and notarial records in Mamanguape, São João do Cariri, and João

Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, digitized ecclesiastical, notarial, and criminal sources of the seventeenth century to XX, in the state of Paraíba. As for the methodological process, this research is characterized by a bibliographical nature, carrying out a case study, involving a more focused observation in two extension projects, as well as an exploratory research, and as a field of research we will use archives in São João do Cariri, Mamanguape and João Pessoa. As a result, besides the creation of a digital collection with more than 230,000 images, contribute as a methodological resource, necessary for a more dynamic and interactive teaching between the student and the direct knowledge that the document provides, allowing the student to develop ability to formulate their own opinions, thus constructing their critical positions on knowledge, generating a collective awareness of the importance of documents in the construction of their history and identity, and that their preservation is fundamental for us to increasingly seek a critical and citizenship.