The Legatum initiative and digital preservation of audiovisual public archives/A iniciativa Legatum e a preservacao digital de arquivos audiovisuais publicos/La iniciativa Legatum y la preservacion digital de archivos audiovisuales publicos

It presents some partial results of a scientific research on digital preservation of public audiovisual archives, whose primary product is an open, multilingual, collaborative repository model--Legatum--based on a digital platform compatible with international archival standards. Still in development, this initiative consists of a series of coordinated actions around a digital repository for storage and remote access to born digital objects or digitized ones, from analog audiovisual collections of public institutions in Brazil and other countries of Latin languages