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- Title
The personal archives universe in Portugal: identification and valorization.
- Authors
PEREIRA, Zélia Maria Cruz
- Abstract
Most of the research on personal archives developed in academic or professional context has focused essentially on theories and methodologies related to its internal organization, with proposals for the creation of classification and descriptive structures. Although the description and representation of information are central to Archives, other dimensions have been relatively neglected, such as the analysis of acquisition policies aimed at the preservation and diffusion of personal archives, by giving them a value based on their historical, cultural and social significance. This study purposes a recognition of the memory institutions in Portugal that hold personal archives, as well as the identification of these archives, reflecting on the motivations for their preservation, the selection criteria applied, and the consequences of some practices inherent to the methods of incorporation and treatment of information. It concludes that the archives preserved and the practices inherent to their constitution correspond to processes of construction of individual and collective memory, conditioned by the performance of several actors, and by different imperatives and purposes, with consequences that make it difficult to assign, to personal archives, a scientific concept, understanding them as information systems produced, assembled and maintained by an individual in the course of his or her life, and social activities and functions. A qualitative research model based on the gathering and analysis of data was followed, using a flexible methodology combining several techniques, in order to identify, in different sources, a universe as wide as possible for the Portuguese case. The results were interpreted aiming a general characterization of phenomena and trends, using, in specific aspects, some quantitative data. The information collected was also used as a structuring basis for building a guide to memory institutions in Portugal and of their holdings concerning personal and family archives, which is presented in volume II of the dissertation.
- Subjects
PERSONAL archives; INFORMATION science; APPRAISAL of archival materials
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p517
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract