A television station management process of moving image documents

Abstract

Introduction: The television images collections are organized and stored in documentation centers, image banks or image archives. Manage images, making them readily available to their internal users, reporters or television programs producers, is an activity that requires increasingly specificity and which is challenging professionals. Objective: investigate how the work in a moving image documentation center is being done. Methodology: Relating the empirical doing with the theory, in order to seek reflections and contributions for the improvement of the processes, having as reference the participant observation in the center of documentation of moving images of the XXXXXX Television Network, branch Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Results: From the data collected, it was observed that there was no consensus in the nomenclature adopted for the sector, as well as in the selection of the professional who works there. Conclusions: To the processes investigated during the participant observation, we consider that the work in the image documentation center is a continuous process and that it does not make sense to think separately the steps of selection, description, indexation and research, supported by the archival theory.