O lapso da memória: um estudo sobre a preservação digital e o acesso a uma hemeroteca jornalística.

Abstract

Journalism is a form of knowledge. And as knowledge registered, documented, becomes part of the field of history, collective memory and social representation and becomes subject to attention and study by Information Science. This paper verified the existence or absence of digital preservation activities in a journal daily newspaper printed and Centennial - Jornal O Norte - member of one of the largest mass media in Brazil - the Diarios Associados Group - and how these results can influence the loss of social memory. For that visits were made to the files of the Journal - collection on paper and what should be a regular digital newspaper library - where photographs were taken and data collection in bits, in detail, the first six months of 2000 - the year the process of digital storage of O Norte started. The finding of complete absence of digital preservation policy in this company has become even more chronic when the data show a total loss of 23.3% of the data should be stored and, if not (re) scan, may be doomed the "amnesia" of zeros and ones. Based on this and other percentage of the survey results, this work suggests some actions to preserve digital bits in the O Norte and also proposes a model for digital preservation based on the precept of family memory of Fernando Catroga.