Documento arquivístico digital: uma abordagem conceitual

Abstract

The main focus of this paper is to conceptualize digital archival documents, given the existence of information and communication technologies available in the current 21st century, as well as their recurrent uses. Four main aspects about digital archival documents are addressed: preservation, legal validity, security and archival document management. The first highlights the difficult task of ensuring long-term preservation, so it is the duty of the archivist and the other professionals involved to keep the document safe from “technological obsolescence”. In the second step, aspects that keep the document intact are addressed, but you can keep the document authentic as long as you follow a set of pre-established security requirements. Then, the mechanisms that guarantee the security of digital documents are raised. Finally, the technical procedures and operations of archival document management based on e-ARQ Brazil are addressed. For the accomplishment of this work a descriptive qualitative research was carried through, as well as a bibliographical survey for the comprehension of the subject.