Preliminary guidelines for digital preservation of tampico’s architectural documentary heritage

Abstract

This article addresses the considerations to prepare a starting point in the planning of digital preservation activities for a physical documentary collection regarding the modern architectural heritage housed in the Historical Archive of Tampico (AHT) “Carlos González Salas” of Tamaulipas, México. The question is, from the case perspective, whether the demand of a designated community and the observation of the nuclear aspects involved in digital preservation activities −organizational infrastructure, technological infrastructure and required resources− contribute usefully as preliminary guidance in the planning of policies, strategies and actions of digital preservation of documentary collections of interest in a specific community. Minimum and priority considerations of digital preservation are discussed in accordance with the provision of collections, human resources, technological infrastructure and institutional organization available in the AHT, in order to place which preliminary executive, operational and technical activities are within your reach in accordance with the recommen-dations of good practices at national and international level regarding long-term digital preservation.