A organização do conhecimento em repositórios institucionais da REDE NORTE (NORTE/RIAA): uma análise a partir da indexação

Abstract

The theme of this research is centered on the Organization and Knowledge Representation, having as object of study the indexing in the institutional repositories of the North Network (NORTE / RIAA). It is situated in the contemporary context of Information Science, Organization and Representation of Information and Knowledge, centered on the social paradigm (users / information). Its general objective is to collaborate with discussions for the Knowledge Organization area based on reflections on Indexing in institutional repositories, and as specific objectives: to study the concepts of knowledge organization and indexing in institutional digital repositories; investigate the indexation process carried out in the Norte / RIAA repositories, through a questionnaire and diagnose the representation standards by indexing, adopted in the Norte / RIAA Institutions. Given this, the research has a descriptive character, with a qualitative approach. Using as method, the study of multiple cases, as the institutions that make up the North / RIAA will be analyzed. The research universe comprises all thirteen 13 institutions that are part of the Network. As for the data collection instrument, the semi-structured questionnaire was used, applied using the google docs form in November 2019, based on the questionnaire by Gomes (2015) and the main indexing theories of: Lancaster (2004), Rubi (2008, 2009), Fujita and Gil Leiva (2009), Dias e Naves (2013), Fujita (2016), Fujita et al. (2016) and repositories from: Leite (2009), Leite et al. (2012), Costa and Leite (2017), Sayão et al. (2009), Shintaku and Meireles (2010). The main results were obtained: most of the North Network repositories are located in the State of Amazonas; all have at least one librarian on their technical team; use Dspace software; they do not have guidelines / policies or an indexing manual, they index specifically; use natural language; do not carry out indexation assessment; in the retrieval of information they use the Boolean operators and display the results in a long form and by author and title. It was concluded that the repositories must recognize the importance of the indexing policy or guidelines for the standardization of information in the repositories; create own vocabulary from the combination of natural and controlled language; provide more effective training to the entire IR team; evaluate indexing in the repositories. This will provide information retrieval effectively and efficiently to all users of the North Network.