Acervos digitais, memória e patrimônio: discursos, técnicas e tecnologias no processo de musealização do Acervo Bar Ocidente em Porto Alegre/ RS

Abstract

This research presents a process of musealization that has as its result the development of Bar Ocidente Digital Archive, it is a digital collection that features on the internet a printed set of Bar Ocidente, a place that is part of the memory of the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. It discusses the processes that led the set of documents to be considered of interest to the local cultural heritage. It discusses the relation between cultural heritage and information technologies and digital communications. It presents different narratives about the purpose of this digital collection. It discusses and analyzes the techniques, technologies and conceptual foundations used by different teams in different stages of work until the launching of the site. It is considered that the artifacts have stories and it is necessary to understand the context of their creation due to identify and know possible paths that society allows to the artifact.