ARCHIVISTIC DESCRIPTION, RECORDS IN CONTEXTS (RiC) AND ACCESS TO MEMORY (AToM): EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

ABSTRACT

The possibilities arising from the expansion of the technological resources have contributed to the reconfiguration of the information systems and the forms of representation and access to the information resources. With the archival description the conformation has occurred, besides the computational mechanisms and software applications, with the proposition of the international conceptual model of archival description, identified as Records in Contexts (RiC). Thus, the central question of this research is to understand the scenario of the scientific literature on archival description, the international conceptual model of archival description, identified as Records in Contextx (RiC), proposed by the International Council on Archives (ICA) and archival description software, called AtoM, whose initial development was also given by the ICA. The research, with a qualitative approach, also makes use of the quantitative approach, given the need to identify the highlights in the research results. Applied in nature seeks exploratory objectives and makes use of bibliographical and documentary research to reach the results. For the analysis of the data collected, graphs, tables, tags and content clouds were used. The results indicate as documents that answer the proposed question.

KEYWORDS:
Archival description; Archive automation; Archivology; Archival documents; Archival description standards