Jorge Revez

Archives' call to Digital Humanities: a case study of Portuguese Municipal Archives

The availability of digitised cultural heritage content held by archives and other memory institutions improves their visibility, facilitate and increases access to information, allowing new kinds of research of digital heritage, namely Digital Humanities. This study intends to report how Municipal Archives of mainland Portugal are ensuring access to their digitized cultural heritage content. For this purpose, an analysis was held to collect data about online catalogues with digital objects linked to the archival description in 278 Municipal Archives of mainland Portugal. The data revealed that the openness of the primary information sources preserved by the municipal archives, which can be reused by all those who need them and particularly by digital humanists, is still in infancy.

O APOIO DAS BIBLIOTECAS À INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA EM PORTUGAL: uma revisão da literatura

A investigacao cientifica assenta em conhecimento cientifico previo, o que torna as bibliotecas num pilar fundamental de acesso ao conhecimento e a sua criacao. Este artigo procura refletir sobre a relacao entre a investigacao cientifica em Portugal e as bibliotecas, que dao acesso a uma parte nuclear dos recursos de informacao, centrada em duas vertentes: (i) o posicionamento das bibliotecas como suporte da investigacao cientifica num ambiente de oferta generalizada de informacao disponivel em linha e (ii) o modo como sao percecionados pelos investigadores os servicos oferecidos pelas bibliotecas de investigacao e universitarias em Portugal. Este trabalho assenta numa revisao da literatura seguindo a proposta cronologica de Manuel Heitor (2015) para a evolucao da ciencia portuguesa. Os dados apresentam dois itinerarios interpretativos que giram em torno dos contributos dos profissionais de informacao e da investigacao universitaria em Ciencia da Informacao. Conclui-se que nao existe ainda um estudo profundo dedicado ao apoio das bibliotecas a investigacao cientifica, havendo espaco em aberto para a prossecucao de um trabalho desta natureza. Palavras-chave: Bibliotecas; Investigacao cientifica, Portugal; Revisao da literatura

Digital curation and costs: approaches and perceptions

The production of large volumes of scientific information, considering its cost, requires approaches that ensure its maintenance, reuse and recovery. These concerns prompted the emergence of digital curation. We intend to discuss the relevant thinking concerning the costs of digital curation. This means addressing the definition of the concept and the issue of costs, based on the studies related to cost models. A literature review was conducted using B-On and RCAAP as research sources, exploring the perceptions of the authors regarding the digital curation and its costs. The views expressed were organized around a scheme based on the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) lifecycle and the reference model Open Archival Information System (OAIS). It is proposed a systematization of digital curation issues bridging the DCC life cycle view of the digital object curation to the OAIS reference model approach, using a cross view seized by cost models and plan/data management policies.