Do Memorial José dos Santos ao Museu Virtual: política de preservação digital da memória social quilombola.

Abstract

The digital preservation of the social memory of Quilombola Remaining Communities (QRCs) constitutes an urgent challenge in the face of the vulnerability of oral tradition, documentary dispersion, and historical erasure that have marked the trajectory of these peoples. This dissertation takes as its research subject the Serra dos Mulatos Quilombola Remaining Community, located in Jardim, Ceará, Brazil, and proposes the development of a Digital Preservation Policy (DPP) as a normative and strategic instrument for safeguarding the collection of the José dos Santos Memorial Virtual Museum. The main objective was to establish guidelines and practices capable of ensuring authenticity, integrity, and long-term access, while reconciling digital preservation standards with the community’s cultural practices. The research adopted a qualitative and predominantly descriptive approach, combining documentary and bibliographic analysis, social cartography and timeline workshops, inventorying and digitization of the collection, as well as participatory processes involving the Serra dos Mulatos Quilombola Remaining Community Association (ARQSM). The diagnosis revealed a heterogeneous collection — composed of photographs, audiovisual records, oral interviews, and community maps — marked by standardization weaknesses and risks of obsolescence, but also by significant potential for preservation and dissemination when digitally organized. The results enabled the consolidation of the DPP into structuring axes: guiding principles, selection and ingestion criteria, metadata and documentation, preservation and integrity strategies, community participation, risk management, transparency, and governance. This policy is configured as a guiding document integrating technical solutions and social arrangements, establishing parameters for sustainability and legitimacy. By confirming the initial hypothesis, the research demonstrates that information management, when grounded in community participation and technical digital preservation frameworks, is capable of ensuring the safeguarding and democratic access to Quilombola memory in the virtual environment