Secult has a virtual exhibition and debates on collections during the National Archives Week
The program includes an online iconographic exhibition and panels on the conservation and digitization of documents in the Amazon
The State Secretariat of Culture (Secult) launched on Tuesday (10) the virtual exhibition "The Iconographies of the Public Archive: Art and History." The exhibition, available on the Secult website, is part of the program promoted by the Public Archive of Pará (Apep) during the 9th National Archives Week, which this year has the theme "Climate Change: Preservation and Accessibility."
The collection features images on various themes, such as botany and hydrographic maps, revealing aspects of the historical context of the region. The exhibition will be available until the end of June.
As part of the program, on Monday (9), debates on the preservation of archives were held in the mini-auditorium of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences (ICSA) at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA).
Participating in the round table "Technologies for Preservation and Dissemination in Archives" were Professor Dr. Décio Guzmán (Faculty of History and PPHIST/UFPA); Master Cristian Mayko Carvalho da Costa (Pro-Rector of Planning and Institutional Development at UFPA); and the PhD student in Information Science – PPGCI/ICSA/UFPA, mediated by the director of the Public Archive, Leonardo Torii.
Leonardo Torii stated about the event: "Today was a very important day for the 9th National Archives Week. The program proposed by the Public Archive of Pará promoted discussions around preservation, both of paper support and digital documents. Fundamental discussions within the general theme of climate change, preservation, and accessibility."
He also highlighted the relevance of digitization in the contemporary context: "Climate change is happening all over the planet, and the Amazon is no different. Today's debate focused on how archives can prepare themselves by protecting their documents, whether they are in paper or digital format. Digitization is in vogue and ensures both the survival of documents and dissemination, which is much greater when the collection is digitized."
Next, Antônio Pacheco Neto gave the lecture "Conservation of Paper Collections in the Amazon: Projects and Challenges." He holds a master's degree in social anthropology from UFPA and is a specialist in Conservation and Restoration of Paper Collections from the Theobaldo de Nigris School (Senai).
"We always have to seize opportunities to promote conservation actions of paper collections in the Amazon. Besides being a little-known job, it requires knowledge about the specificities of the region and how they affect the support, which in this case is paper. I believe it is the duty of those who work in the field to be multipliers of this knowledge," concluded Pacheco Neto.
Text by Juliana Amaral / Ascom Secult
