The Digital Documentary Heritage in the context of the government program of the National Executive of Venezuela

Abstract

The article aims to expose the results of an investigation that studied the formation of digital documentary heritage created in the public management of nine bodies of the Executive branch. The focus of the study is quantitative, transactional and descriptive. Nine websites of government departments were reviewed. Data was collected in a matrix that allowed knowing the identification and distribution of the digital heritage between these bodies, formats that represent it, features, use, offered procedures that give rise to the formation of the digital heritage. In the theoretical context the subject of e-Government, it was argued approaches, stages of development at the international and national levels. Conclusive research aspects include identification of digitized text format, digital photography and video as brackets that identify the digital heritage in the portals of the elected institutions. Preeminence in formats according to the Ministry. Importance of document management in technological context. Inequality in the offer of on-line public procedures offered by entities analyzed. Technological trends of management and dissemination of information represented by digital libraries, institutional repositories found in some of the revised public portals at the time of conducting the investigation. Proposals on the simplification of procedures and new systems such as interoperability capabilities. Curriculum topic study linking; skills that should focus first on advanced training, involving search, update, and application of the knowledge gained by the professional degree in archival science, library science or information science. Secondly, the performance should focus on quality management. Finally, the management oriented to the promotion of services according to the times that run and focused on users with disabilities, citizens with a right of access to information and knowledge.