ICT as a support for the cultural public heritage: A digitization project of the historical archive of Araranguá-SC

Abstract

The main function of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is to promote the dissemination and sharing of information, through tools that aid communication in general. An environment that characterizes and facilitates this process of communication between people, times and places, based on the information it maintains in various formats, is the Museum, or Historical Archive. However, what we realize is that the visit to the museum is no longer the main source of information, remembered at the time of the research, and it is in this context that the said ICTs can contribute. The application of computational tools and mechanisms in the museological context, not only causes modernization, but also seeks to facilitate the investigation and gathering of information, besides assuming, above all, a position of complement to the museum, not of "competition", with which never will no longer be the safeguarding environment of history. This work aimed to describe the project and the processes of digitalization and virtual availability of the historical collection of the municipality of Araranguá-SC and report its consequences regarding the conservation and diffusion of the digitized collection.