Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)

Casa de Oswaldo Cruz developed Base Arch from ICA-AtoM as a descriptive and access environment for archives documenting the history of medicine, science and public health. Development began in 2007, and the customised platform went online in 2010 with descriptions of 47 fonds. The work adapted ICA-AtoM to the department's methodology and to Brazilian descriptive practice under NOBRADE, while retaining multilevel description and web access. Base Arch subsequently became the information repository for permanent archival holdings at Fiocruz. The study reports more consistent descriptive work, standardised finding aids and greater access to collections. Because it does not identify a predecessor application or completed transfer from one, this is recorded as an implementation rather than a system migration.