Estudo das potencialidades de uso do software Tainacan em acervos arquivísticos

Abstract

This research has as its theme the diffusion and digital preservation from the realization of a study that aims to verify the potential of the Tainacan repository for archival collections. Tainacan is an open source digital repository (Open Source) widely disseminated by Brazilian museologists and librarians and little known in the archival environment. The research was developed within the course Completion Work discipline in Archival Science between the months of November 2021 to July 2022. To test the potential of the software, it was necessary to create a web server with local access installed on a personal computer. The study was carried out using a family file, with the researcher and his family being chosen for ease of access. Photographs and texts were digitized using a scanner. In order to work with audiovisual collections, it was necessary to migrate information that were in old documentary supports (today little used, such as VHS tapes and cassette tapes) to contemporary media, making digital what was analog. From the experimentation carried out in the development of the research project, it was observed that Tainacan has the potential to make available image documents, documents in formats (PDF. DOC and DOCX), and audiovisual documents (MP3 and MP4) through a web server, working as a means of dissemination and access but also of preservation as a repository since it keeps records stored. In conclusion, it is clear that the Tainacan Repository needs more studies by the archival community so that its use can also be adopted by archival institutions and company archives.