Abstract
Reflection about the construction of a proposed description for historical photographs safeguarded in museums’ collections, through a set of metadata that meets the informational needs of the researcher. Presents issues related to the museum, the museological documentation, information organization, metadata and description of historical photographic collections to conceptualize the proposal. As methodology, was elaborated, on the basis of two models, a documentary record to be used as a instrument for the metadata insertion. Through the analysis of documentary records of historical photographic collections of the Museum of Image and Sound in the south and southeast of Brazil and consulting the relevant literature, the set of metadata for describing historical photograph was formulated. It is hoped that the creation of the proposal contributes for the museums take on increasingly his role as research entities, through the organization of the collections and appreciation of objects as a source of information. It is concluded that the historical photograph safeguarded by museums is a source of information for scientific research and therefore should be described in way that addresses the museological documentation premises, that aims to identify the intrinsic and extrinsic informational characteristics of the object.
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