Digital objects: from malleability the non-finite to an ontology

Abstract

This text presents the digital objects and their impact to information
units using the case study of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV /
CPDOC) Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary
History of Brazil. It briefly highlights the impact of technologies on the
contemporary social, and its influence on the transformations observed
in the informational field. It points out the need for a reflection on the
impact of digitized and digital documents on their core by the Information
Units, since with the creation of a mass of digital, it is promoted a
malleability that traditional supports of physical nature do not support.
It conceptualizes the born-digital and highlights it as being an element
capable of renewing the entire informational logical chain. It analyzes
the consultation data to the CPDOC collection, according to the most
visited collections in the period from 2010 to 2016, highlighting the
impact on the number of accesses from the availability of digital copies
of the collections. It points to the ontology of digital as a possibility of
appropriation of information and its repercussions in the context of the
technological revolution.