Microtesauros sobre filme de terror

Abstract

Documentary Languages (DLS), controlled vocabularies, or thesauri emerged with the great scientific and technological evolution of the 19th century, and their terminologies arose rapidly, demanding closer attention to this subject. Peter Mark Roget was the first to publish the first thesaurus in 1852. From then on, others gradually emerged with the purpose of reflecting terminologies related to specialized or general domains. It is in this sense that we present the results of research whose basic objective is to elaborate a semantic microthesaurus on horror films, based on three main categories: elements, characters, and subgenres. The methodology is a mixed-methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) and exploratory in nature, based on bibliographic and documentary research. Regarding the construction of the thesaurus, it was based on Cervantes' doctoral thesis, "Integrated Methodological Model for Thesaurus Construction" from 2009. The result was a multilingual and multidisciplinary microthesaurus containing 101 terms, 81 of which are descriptors and 20 non-descriptors, organized alphabetically. In conclusion, the elaboration of the microthesaurus focused on horror cinema proved to be a relevant process in the representation, organization, and retrieval of information, also highlighting the importance of library science in the representation of information in various spheres.