Documentation and Scientific Archiving: Digital Repository

Documentation and archiving tools were developed for using with descriptive linguistics and then became a discipline called Linguistics of Documentation in 1998. The aim of this discipline is to preserve documents and primary data of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and humanistic research. In 2018 the University of Azuay signed a Framework Agreement for Scientific and Technological Cooperation with several partners: CONICET Argentina, the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute, the University of Chile, the National University of Formosa, the Center for Anthropological Studies of the Catholic University of Paraguay, the National University of San Juan, Argentina; and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru to contribute to the documentation, preservation and dissemination of linguistic and cultural heritage. The main objective of this research is to create a website called ‘Documentation and scientific Archiving’ that facilitates the use and exchange access to a corpus of resources from various disciplines for scientific and educational purposes. The premise of the methodology used for the development of the website is an orientation to various disciplines. The synthesis focused on the review of the characteristics of sites of similar purpose. The study considered three major stages for the synthesis of the web application: 1) the detailed review of 11 websites allowed identification of the entities and attributes used as the basis for development; 2) the quantification of entities and the attributes found in those pages were the key to deciding that the website covered multiple disciplines or lines of research i.e. the key attributes for handling multimedia files were evidenced; 3) the identification of user requirements. The “Documentation and scientific Archiving” website is expected to be functional for both researchers and users to help maintain and preserve the country’s linguistic and cultural heritage. In addition to UDA researchers, other local and national universities can file their research inventories on the site where they can be preserved, reviewed, exchanged and used by other Latin American researchers. Finally, today, technology has become a fundamental aid for the development of research projects, building bridges between linguistic, anthropological, archaeological, humanistic research and the development and creation of applications and websites.