Avaliação dos recursos de recuperação da informação no site do Diário Oficial da União

Abstract

The Government of Brazil’s Gazette (‘Diário Oficial da União’ or ‘DOU’) is one of the official communication vehicles through which the national press has to make public any and all matters concerning the federal jurisdiction. The emergence of the DOU brought transparency and standardized access to public acts, contributing to the advancement and compliance with Brazil’s Access to Information Act (Lei de Acesso à Informação – LAI), highlighting its importance in the consolidation of democracy in the country. Furthermore, this research analyzes the search and information retrieval tools on the website of the National Press (Imprensa Nacional – IN) which gives access to the DOU. In this work, the resources available in the system and search results were examined, primarily in Section N°03 of the DOU, and the relevance of the search engines of the IN portal and their effectiveness related to information retrieval through the search results were verified. The search tools on the Government portal were described and presented in images, performing a search in both a simple and an advanced way. Finally, the efficiency of search engines was noted, but there is a need for more studies related to the topic.