Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações: reflexões sobre representação da informação com vistas à recuperação da informação

Abstract

In contemporary society, the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has changed the traditional setting, specifically the existing information environment. This article presents reflections on the informational representation process in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (DLTD) and analyzes this process as an effective tool of organizing information in this open access environment. The study was conducted using as a basis the DLTD fed with data of theses and dissertations of the Federal University of Ceará (FUC). In total, 253 documents were analyzed, 200 dissertations and 53 theses, several courses (random) of the UFC. The survey used in this study was exploratory and descriptive: exploratory because aimed to provide better knowledge about the topic at hand and descriptive because sought to describe the subject of the characteristics from the data collected in DLTD/FUC. The results show that DLTD/FUC has its own characteristics with regard to the descriptive and thematic representation of information, some consistent with the standards followed by AACR2R and the principles of indexing, among which are: the registration of metadata for the authorship documents presents different from AACR2R recommendations; the lack of standardization in filling some fields of DLTD, like the metadata corresponding to the "Contributors", "physical description" and Note for titration, and have been the problems encountered with respect to information retrieval when performed searches for issues.