Lineamientos para construcción de un código deontológico para profesionales de Archivología en Venezuela

Develop guidelines for the construction of a deontological code for Archivology professionals in Venezuela, with the purpose of serving as a foundation and delimiting attributes of ethical responsibility for the exercise of graduates in the area. The methodology is of a descriptive type with a documentary and field design, having as a sample 10 reference manuals from up to 8 countries in the world and 1 of an international nature, in its sections on compositional elements, structure and form. Next, it compares the deontological principles access to information, document conservation and preservation, document management, professional incorruptibility, privacy, user service, professional responsibility and social responsibility. After that, it characterizes the deontological, ethical and moral criteria of Archival professionals in Venezuela, achieved with the application of a survey to contextualize the national scope and strengthen or contradict the criteria obtained in the comparative documentary analysis. As a consequence, a code is obtained that contains the ethical principles studied contextualized to Venezuela. From the results it is obtained that the ethical principles of different countries are in line with each other and with the ethical requirements of the Venezuelan archivologists.