Informatización para archivos sin recursosel Archivo Histórico Provincial de Toledo

Résumé

Implementing a data processing system in archives requires a coordinate effort between the institution from which it depends and its own archivists. The first must provide the economic and political support, and the infraestructures, as well as the trainning of the users. The late must normalize and homologize, when possible, the found¿s control, organization and their description. When both factors concur, the success is almost guaranteed. Unfortunately, still there are many archives, specially small and medium sized, in which one of the factors, or both, are not properly developed. For them, designing of specific programs, access to Internet or merely to Email services are questions out of reaching. Nevertheless, there are possibilities of developing some kind of data system, perhaps quite rudimentary, with a minimum of infraestructure and preparation in order to improve data management and even to set the necessary steps to prepare the information they comprise for a posterior deeper go-through enterprise. In this way we are developing a data processing project of our own description instruments, aiming into simplicity onto a very scarce infraestructural resources, as well as economic or personnel ones. In spite of its simplicity, this project has produced the data management of an appreciable quantity of documental founds, including the more used; secondly, their difussion in CD-ROM form through the collaboration of DIGIBIS S.A. and Fundacion Historica Tavera. Thus, with very few resources, it is possible to reach useful goals, noting that the information is now ready to be transmitted into more complex systems or improved difussion forms as soon as we will be able to count with adecuate resources and trainning. It is our believe that this example will be helpful and encouraging to archivists in charge of small and medium centers.