A indexação de fotografias no arquivo pessoal Edson Diniz sobre o grupo Thenetehara-Guajajara

Abstract

Among the institutions dedicated to the organization, preservation, and dissemination of information, four stands out due to the tradition of their work in ancient and modern society: archives, libraries, museums and documentation centers. However, in addition to these spaces, the present research highlights the documentary relevance of personal archives such as that of Edson Soares Diniz, a gone anthropologist in the Brazilian academic scene with relevant work carried out between the 1970s and 1990s. The main object aims to reflect about the indexing of the contents present in the photographs that compose the personal archive of the ethnologist Edson Diniz about the Tenetehara-Guajajara group. And specific objectives: to study the concept of documentation and documents in Information Science and Museology; carry out a theoretical survey on knowledge organization, as well as on indexing; investigate procedures, difficulties, and strategies in the process of indexing photographs in the context of the personal archive of the ethnologist Edson Diniz about the Tenetehara-Guajajara group using the analysis sheet based on the Pato Method. The use of the Pato Method allowed the analysis of photographic images; with the participation of three professional museologists, with the support of a support text made available on the Tenetehara-Guajajara and Edson Diniz group, it was possible to apply in a contextual way the indexing of photographic images. Then, the three professionals received a retrospective questionnaire, in which they could point out their considerations on the analysis form, on the photographs and describe their decision making at the time of filling in the analysis form. Thus, the results obtained both by applying the Pato Method and by the retrospective questionnaire allowed to verify: the applicability of the analysis form for image indexing; the theoretical approaches to Document and Documentation between the areas of Information Science and Museology; and the importance of revising the support material for applying the analysis form. Therefore, by understanding that the establishment of reflections on documentary content, such as those present in the chosen photographs, are inserted in the debates in the field of Knowledge Organization; thus, it is proposed from the present research the importance of elaborating a manual that can promote the reproducibility of files based on the Pato Method to be adapted to the most diverse professional profiles.