Digital Collections

This paper aims to analyse the possible articulation between digital collections and the construction of memories from the material made available by them. In view of the digital collections we selected the Brazilian Virtual Memory Network (RMVB) website of the National Library Foundation (FBN) which aims to gather information about digital collections from all over Brazil. The RMVB presents educational materials on the content of collections hosted by it in an attempt to disseminate and democratise access to information and material hosted by it these texts and images help the specialized and lay public to contextualise the various themes presented on the portal. In this sense based on the concept of metamemory this work will analyse the reasons for the organisation construction dissemination and potential of the objects built and hosted by Rede da Memória always observing its objectives of popularising access especially for the non-specialist public.