Preservação digital em coleções bibliograficas da biodiversidade: o caso da Biodiversity Heritage Library no Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG)

Abstract

Reports the experience of the project of digitization and online publication of Essential rare works collection in biodiversity of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG). The initiative is the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), whose purpose is to subsidize, the strengthening and development of scientific information and communication infrastructure, biodiversity and the environment. The purpose of the study is to show the project of digitization and online publication of Essential rare works collection in biodiversity of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and study the role of digital preservation in the bibliographic collection special, using the criteria of digital preservation and digitization policies. Allowing the construction of a conceptual schema to add and save the information in digital format, giving immediate access, by means of networks and sources of information, both national and international. The methodological path was conducted through an exploratory research of descriptive character, based on literature as in books, journals, dissertations, theses and scientific articles already published addressing the theme. Thus, the most relevant issues is examined in the study, with related methods with the preservation of a bibliographic collection in digital formats. In this sense, the scan is combined with digital preservation in the collection on biodiversity, and will bring enormous contribution to the library of MPEG, making scientific information more accessible, giving continuity to the memory and making sure the absolute excellence of digital supports, covered by technological innovations that remedied their future losses.