Ministério Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) — Centro de Memória

The Centro de Memória of the Ministério Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro definitively implemented AtoM at the beginning of 2020 to describe and disseminate its institutional holdings online. A peer-reviewed case study by a member of the MPRJ project explains that the work responded to growing demand for digital access and to public-sector transparency obligations. The principal difficulty was organisational as well as technical: the Memory Centre could not make backend changes itself and depended on an Information Technology team that initially had little familiarity with AtoM or open-source software. Archivists supplied user guidance and forum resources, while a designated IT professional with open-source experience worked with them on configuration and maintenance. At the time of the study the developing catalogue contained six fonds, three collections and 870 described digital objects. The article documents implementation and continuing institutional maintenance, but names no predecessor database or automated data migration.