Arqueologia dos Media : tecnologia media do século XIX-XX : uma abordagem museológica para o futuro

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, José António Ferreira Borges
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51852
• topic: Arquivo Ephemera; Arqueologia midia (Conceito); Arquivos audiovisuais; Património audiovisual; Obsolescência; Museologia; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes

This work aims to provide an overview on some aspects of media technology equipment and supports, its importance for the preservation of collective memory; it approaches prevention, preventive conservation and its archiving, with particular attention to media supports. The connection of the theoretical aspects to the existing reality starts from the inventory of the Portuguese audiovisual heritage - collections, archives, museums, libraries - reviewing its collections, its state of conservation and prevention, as well as its digitization, where applicable. In addition to a set of general reflections (methodological, archival, technical and political) necessary for a preliminary understanding of the conservation and dissemination of documentary memory, the following specific areas are privileged in this study: cinema, video, communication, photography. The norms and methodologies regarding the conservation and accessibility of audiovisual heritage are also reviewed. In this field, several documents from UNESCO and a set of national laws that guide and condition several types of collections are highlighted - in addition to the reflective contributions of a number of thinkers and analysts. The rapid technological, scientific, and market evolution raises a range of problems in the field of museum conservation and assembly, and justifies the detailed study of existing or planned means and methodologies. The digitization and introduction of up-to-date means of document consultation, many of them multidisciplinary and based on new technologies, is important to avoid a slow death of the collections. ICOM is calling for new ideas for the sector - a new landscape of change for the museums of the 21st century is progressively arriving. In response to this international call, new proposals for defining museums are open for consideration and discussion. This study will be part of the contextualization elaboration of my project, based on a personal collection with about 500 media pieces from the 19th-20th century, in a museological approach for the future.