Planning and Digital Collections Policy: challenges and possibilitys

Abstract

The article presents the experience of organizing and publicizing, through the Tainacan platform, two university collections belonging to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul: the Collection of the Physics Teaching Laboratory and the collections of the Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Ângelo of the Institute of Arts. Based on this report, a reflection is carried out on the need to update the National Policy on Museums with a view to implementing the publicity of cultural collections, especially those of a museological nature on the web. It considers the need to make collections available on the internet as a way to expand the constitutional right of access to cultural heritage by citizens. It demonstrates that this issue was already included in the National Museum Plan in 2003 and in the 2010 Museum Sector Plan, with subsequent discussion on the need to make collections available on the network and in a network, facilitating the retrieval of information by the public. It indicates the need to adopt metadata standards for the description of items in collections and a curatorship for digital preservation, with models, norms and guidelines.