Análise do tratamento da informação no Museu do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Pará

Abstract

Information Treatment investigates the support and subject dimensions that make up the document, seeking to formulate access points and representations that enable the relationship between user x information x document in different information units. In this sense, this research arises from the concern about the informational treatment of the Museum of the Historical and Geographic Institute of Pará (MIHGP), located in the downtown of Belém - PA, in which weaknesses in the processes of organization and representation of information have already been observed. This research seeks to analyze the Information Treatment of MIHGP, focusing on the catalog card, using, in an interdisciplinary way, conceptual and methodological elements of the Organization of Knowledge and Information. It is a descriptive and experimental research, using direct observation as a methodological strategy. The methodological procedures were configured as: the selection of bibliographies related to the Organization of Knowledge and Information and the Subject and Descriptive Treatment; construction of levels of informational treatment, in the descriptive and thematic dimensions, from the analysis of these bibliographies; the adequacy of the fields of the catalog to the established levels; observation of the levels reached by the research instrument, outlining strengths and weaknesses. It was noticed in the results that the informational treatment reached satisfactory levels in the descriptive sphere, by enabling essential functions of investigation of the support of the objects of the MIHGP. However, the research instrument did not reach acceptable levels of subject treatment, as it did not allow indexing terms related to the content of the document and the identification of the association between owners and the objects of the MIHGP. As a solution to these problems, we sought to reformulate this instrument using the Tainacan software, using new guidelines and processes present in the field of Archivology, Museology and Information Science. It was concluded that the proposed discussion comprises a series of debates that seek to minimize the problems surrounding the informational context of the presented museum institution. This investigation can complement the MIHGP's trajectory regarding the need to organize the information of its collections, and can be seen as one of the steps towards more effective norms and guidelines for the representation of information, such as, for example, an indexation policy.