Information Architecture: integrative review on Information Science databases

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Carin Cunha
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Virgínia Bentes, David, Priscila Barros
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/38061
• topic: Information architecture; Information science; Data base; Integrative review; Arquitectura de la información; Ciencia de la información; Bases de datos; Revisión integradora; Arquitetura da Informação; Ciência da Informação; Bases de Dados; Revisão Integrativa

Introduction: The advent of digital information and communication technologies has led to the emergence of large amounts of information and little organization. Information architecture emerged in this scenario with the objective of planning, organizing and designing informational environments so that the user finds the information he seeks. Objective: This research seeks to analyze the presence of information architecture in the scientific literature related to information science, based on the following question: how is information architecture being investigated in scientific articles in the area of Information Science?Methodology: It is an exploratory research based on the integrative review, and the literature search was performed on the following sources of information: Reference Database of Information Science Journals (BRAPCI), Scopus and Library and Information Sciense Abastracts (LISA), The period covered was 2000 to the first half of 2019. The search strategy was based on the term “information architecture”. From the results, the titles, abstracts, keywords were read and, in some cases, the full texts were read. Results: Seventy-three articles found on the subject of information architecture were grouped into the following categories: information architecture connected to various areas, information architecture and digital environments, pervasive information architecture, information architecture and information science, users, health area, information architecture and usability, ontologies, metadata. Conclusions: This study allowed the confirmation that the information architecture is interdisciplinary, allowing connections with other areas of knowledge.