Preservación y difusión del Fondo Histórico de la Universidad de la Sabana

Higher education institutions are asked to expand repositories and preservation management capabilities beyond scientific and academic publication management, such as History Collections. This communication presents the work done in the repository Intellectum of La Sabana University, when in 2005 incorporated a History Collection of exceptional importance, receiving two collections of approximately 40,000 pages of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, corresponding to the documentary fund of Manuel Maria Mosquera and David Mejia Velilla. These collections were integrated in the Historical Archive Cipriano Rodriguez Santa Maria. Intellectum adaptation was focused on balancing the highest quality and maximum exposure (access) of preservation copies, consultation copies and additional representations for different users and access devices. For this, it has been made an approach in which specific preservation solutions coexist with, equally specific, visualization solutions, for a variety of users and access devices. A part of the ingest system in Intellectum is oriented towards the deposit of high quality jpeg copies resulting from the process of digitization of historical collections. These scanned copies are the main objects of the preservation systems incorporated to DSpace. For its size, derived from its high definition, these files are not available to general users, and are stored in a specific DSpace bundle. Subsequently a set of automated curation tasks assemble, from those copies, different versions and representations of each object. In Intellectum the preservation files are assembled into a single multipage pdf file, suitable for download by all users (stored in an accesible bundle), and also stored in flash format suitable for a pseudo-streaming viewer, or a copy apt for devices that support HTML4.