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Safeguarding Brazilian History for the National Archive of Brazil

The archive holds 2.5 Petabytes of information including thousands of documents, a large online collection of 10 electronic sites, seven databases and 42 research tools. The archive also holds an extensive analogue collection. The Brazilian National Archive found great interest in Piql’s vendor independent solution as they are struggling with the increasing cost of digitisation and migration. With a view to gradually transform the archive overtime, the first project preserving the most important historical documents on piqlFilm has been completed.

Holding such an extensive collection can present significant 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 been written to piqlFilm and deposited in the Arctic World Archive.

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 16th century until the 20th century. By doing this, we ensure that future generations will have access to this information. ”

Mr. José Ricardo Marques Director of the National Archives of Brazil