title: Multimedia Collections Management
creators: Cláudio Souza Ruben Ferreira
abstract: Multimedia Collection Management Research Project developed by the Study Group and Laboratory Practice and Free Software and Multimedia - LinkLivre, linked to Bahia’s Reconcavo Federal University/UFRB, quests both to identify and classify electronic components and hardware; software technical particularities, application code, analogical and digital file formats and media chemical compositions, such as DVDs, CDs, magnetic tapes, etc., whose structure works support for two multimedia’s works storage and reproduction, one by the artist Fernando Rabelo and another one by Jarbas Jacome, both professors of Visual Arts at Bahia’s Reconcavo Federal University. Based upon such an identification, possible practices might be pointed out for the establishment of multimedia collection preservation policy within a medium term. Finally, the research ending product will be accomplished by a database development, based on technical characteristics of the identified multimedia works.
keywords: preservation digital archives multimedia collections lisbon