Network Collections: Perspectives for cultural institutions in times of digital culture

Abstract

In the context of economic, cultural and social transformations produced by the development of digital technologies and especially by the emergence and popularization of the Internet, the network becomes a paradigmatic object in the forms of communication and dissemination of information. Being part of this scenario, cultural institutions have produced new practices and ways of dealing with contemporary forms of storage and dissemination of cultural information from the network object as a structuring element of their doing. The present article aims to highlight the practices of production of network collections, both nationally and internationally. The analysis of the data collected, through bibliographical and documentary research, allowed us to identify existing initiatives in Brazil, as well as to map consolidated international practices in the form of services. The results of the research demonstrate that while the practices of production of network collections find technical and political barriers in the national scenario, and no national policy in effect has been identified, in the international scenario, these practices have been disseminated and developed in North America, Europe and Oceania.