Abstract

RODRIGUEZ RESENDIZ, Perla Olivia. Sound documental managment: the digital life cycle in the sound archives. Palabra clave [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1853-9912.

The analog sound preservation of media (discs, cassettes, tapes, etc) is based on documental stages and processes, from the material is enter into the archive until it is consulted. The documental processes can be arranged in stages as part of the life cycle. Analog stages became obsolete before the growth of digital collections. Therefore it is necessary to review the processes and determinate the stages involved in the digital life cycle. The object of this article is to identify and expose the main documental processes as part of the digital life cycle in the digital preservation of sound materials. The article analyze scientific literature of documentary processes and the life cycle of sound archives; in addition, it examines some of the most relevant and recent digital preservation plans for sound archives formulated by national libraries and archives. With this, the article expose the concepts to define the stages and the documentary processes that are carried in an analog archive and also it presents digital life cycle models in which sound materials are included. As a result, it will be exposed the identification and description of the main processes of the digital life cycle. In addition, it will propose an ordering of the main stages of the life cycle in the digital preservation

Keywords : Digital life cycle; Sound archives; Digital sound preservation; Documental process.