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National Archives of Brazil Case study

We are proud to create history for Brazil by being part of this important moment to deposit in the Arctic World Archive™ the most important documents from the National Archives of Brazil from before the 16th century until the 20th century. By doing this now, we are ensuring that future generations will have access to this information. “ Ricardo Marques, Director of the National Archives of Brazil

SOLUTION

The archive holds 2.5 Petabytes of information includ ing thousands of documents, a large online collection of 10 electronic sites, seven databases and 42 research tools. The archive also holds an extensive analogue col lection.

The Brazilian National Archive found great interest in Piql’s vendor independent solution as they are strug gling with the increasing cost of digitisation and migra tion. With a view to gradually transform the archive overtime, the first project preserving the most important histori cal documents on piqlFilm has been completed.

CHALLENGE

Holding such an extensive collection can present signif icant challenges for future management. Many archives rely on migration strategies to keep data accessible and this can become very expensive and risky for archives with large collections.

This first project has now also been deposited in the Arctic World Archive.

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The process of digitising old analogue records can also be painstaking and slow.

Collections are also often held in different legacy sys tems, rather than one cohesive archival management tool, creating additional work for archivists. Digitally born content is also presenting perhaps the biggest challenge of all with rapid evolution of technol ogy resulting in technological obsolescence after just a few years. This becomes a race against time to ensure data isn’t trapped on unreadable media or in unreadable formats.

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