A preservação da informação digital nos arquivos das IFES da Região Sul do Brasil

This article aims to report the existence of strategies for the preservation of digital information in archives Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the South of Brazil. With the assumption that these institutions develop digital preservation strategies (migration, emulation, encapsulation, adoption of standards, among others) for their collections, seeking to portray this scenario through four objectives: analysis of the integration of digital documents in the programs document management; survey of digital preservation strategies developed in archives; identification of units in addition to the archives responsible for the implementation of strategies for digital preservation, and analysis of factors that undermine the effectiveness of conservation strategies. Thus, the findings demonstrate that there is a scenario less effective in preserving the digital archival information in Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the South of Brazil