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Archival Document Management for Electronic Real Estate Registry

March 2020

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Adriana Jacoto Unger

University of São Paulo

Digital transformation of the real estate registration service poses significant challenges to born-digital document management. Real estate registry offices keep an age-old collection of public archival documents, which must be submitted to archival management that defines appropriate methods and procedures to guarantee organization, standardization, security, disposal and conservation of documents and the information they contain. In the context of a proof-of-concept of Electronic Real Estate Registry System (SREI), an Archival Documents Management Information System (SIGAD) prototype was developed, based on definition of minimum requirements for archival document management for electronic real estate registry.

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