Informatización para archivos sin recursos: el Archivo Histórico Provincial de Toledo

Implementing a data processing system in archives requires a coordinate effort between the institution from which it depends and its own archivists. The first must provide the economic and political support, and the infraestructures, as well as the trainning of the users. The late must normalize and homologize the found´s control, organization and their description. When both factors concur, the success is almost guaranteed. Unfortunately, still there are many archives, specially small and medium sized, in which one of the factors, or both, are not properly developed. Nevertheless, there are possibilities of developing some kind of data system, perhaps quite rudimentary, with a minimum of infraestructure and preparation in order to improve data management and even to set the necessary steps to prepare the information they comprise for a posterior deeper go-through enterprise. In this way in the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Toledo we are developing a data processing project of our own description instruments, aiming into simplicity onto a very scarce infraestructural resources, as well as economic or personnel ones. In spite of its simplicity, this project has produced the data management of an appreciable quantity of documental founds; secondly, their difussion in CD-ROM form. Thus, with very few resources, it is possible to reach useful goals, noting that the information is now ready to be transmitted into more complex systems or improved difussion forms as soon as we will be able to count with adecuate resources and trainning