Inglês — partes e procuradores

In Brazil, federal and state court systems have usedtechnology in the last years, but the experience and coverage ismixed. In the early 1990s, one of the major initiatives of the federaljudiciary has been the computerization of electoral courts. Thisexperience and other reforms have motivated some states judiciariesto advance court automation in different jurisdictions, in aspectssuch as public information, case management, and documentarchiving. Studies indicate that the needs for information technologyand communications use are rising as many state court systems lag1behind in investments.The modernization of the documentary archives of thefederal judiciary is a fairly recent initiative that has been motivatedby a growing concern for the preservation of the country's historicalarchive, and by the need to manage the exponential growth of currentarchives. Paper archives constitute an enormous investment in termsof time and space, documentsdeteriorate or are lost, and informationretrieval can be laborious. The modernization of archives involvesnot only the rationalization of existing resources and collections, butalso the introduction of new technologies for the electronic storageand retrieval of current documents.In May 1998, the Supreme Federal Tribunal initiated aproject of reform, and in early 2000 carried out a survey to identifythe problem areas relating to infrastructure, access, archiving policy,training and management strategies. The survey results constitute animportant first step in the development of a long-term technical andadministrative policy for the management of judicial archives.Follow on work has so far collected information from all the archiveholdingjudicial institutions in the area of the capital, Brasília.There are on average 4 archivists per institution, whichmeans one archivist for every 751 meters of documents. Thetechnical equipment is for the most partantiquated, with only 37%of archives equipped with computer terminals. Most of the judicialarchives do not, therefore, have either the technical or personnelresources necessary for the efficient management, storage andretrieval of documents.- a delay between two things happening.Based on the passage above, it is correct to say that

in the late 1990s, the Supreme Federal Tribunal began a survey to pinpoint problems concerning several areas that include archiving policy.