Representação descritiva da informação em catálogos de monumentos históricos

Abstract

Throughout history, societies have produced representations that illustrate their daily lives and beliefs, affirming a cultural identity. The experiences and events of a people were remembered

through collective memory, expressed in oral narratives, written documents and three- dimensional artifacts. With the development of libraries, these records began to be preserved

and compiled into a unit, the catalogues. Considering the need to safeguard the memory of a society, this research's main objective is to propose a digital cataloging model for the historical monuments of the city of Fortaleza. The theoretical framework addresses collective memory and its legacy represented in historical monuments, in addition to presenting the new digital cataloging code, RDA, and the conceptual models that supported its conception, as instruments for the descriptive representation of information. The research has an applied nature, qualitative approach and descriptive characteristic, using bibliographic and documentary research as data collection instruments. The analytical procedure adopted is content analysis, which made it possible to manipulate the messages, their content and their expression, highlighting relationships present in the analyzed material. To this end, a sample was prepared consisting of the cataloging of three historical monuments in Fortaleza that could be analyzed in their entirety, and the proposed model was presented. The results obtained highlighted the innovation that the RDA offers in registering these assets in a digital environment, providing relevant instructions for their cataloging. Therefore, it is concluded that the techniques used in library work are crucial for the preservation of collective memory.