Digital Curation: Archivist’s roles and responsibilities

Abstract

Introduction: This article shows the roles and responsibilities of the archivist in the context of Digital Curation, verifying how the professional from the use of theories, technologies, instruments, processes and policies, can act and outline strategic actions and procedures for curatorship and preservation processes digital.
Objective: To investigate the roles and responsibilities of professionals in the context of digital curatorship for data preservation or digital preservation,
Methodology: Review of the literature on the professional archivist, their functions and activities in organizations in the context of digital curation.
Results: Considering the need for the archivist to act and policies on digital documents and their long-term preservation. In search of expanding and maturing theoretical and practical conceptions about the issue. The archivist with an accurate look seeks to modify ideas, thoughts and theories about the management of preservation and the magnification of its importance, especially the guard and the future access of digital documents. Therefore, the importance of the incorporation of qualified and prepared professionals to the corporate staff of the institutions, which can provide strategic preservation actions.
Conclusions: It concludes that the perspectives of the archivist's performance are possible in the performance of the digital curatorship. According to the existence of new researches and teachings. The training contemplates theoretical aspects, practical, technical and management being necessary to investigate about the digital curation. Reflect deeply on your training as your work in the labor market and persuasive in your doing both digital and physical Archival.