Memory centers in the digital environment: focus on the analysis of public and private companies

Abstract

Companies show the importance of preserving the organizational memory through Memory Centers, reporting its trajectory and encompassing the community in its history. As a general objective, it was intended to demonstrate how the Brazilian public and private sectors companies preserve their corporate memory in the virtual environment. Specific objectives: to analyze how are structured the Corporate Memory Centers in the virtual environment; checking the available types of documents; encourage discussion of the importance given by companies to their Corporate Memory Centers. This research has documental, exploratory qualitative content; his universe composed of 16 Brazilian portals, chosen intentionally possessing Digital Memory Centers as a common factor. As a result, there is the importance of the portals with regard to preserving the memory of a company, and it is evident that memory and file go together, not only by promoting the preservation of the history of a company, as well as the preservation of history of society.