The context of the archives indexation policy: a study of participant observation in the professional practice of archivists

• Autor(a) principal: Nakagawa, Jacqueline
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Fujita, Mariângela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Educação em Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://portal.abecin.org.br/rebecin/article/view/265
• topic: Indexing policy. Archives. Participant observation.; Política de indexación. Archivo permanente. Observación de los participantes; Política de Indexação; Arquivo Permanente; Observação Participante

The indexing policy consists of guidelines for decisions making by the indexing professional that aim to standardize and systematize the process of thematic representation of document information, however, the theme is little explored in the archives scenario. In order to identify and characterize the indexing policy in archives, a participant observation study was carried out at the Unesp Documentation and Memory Center (CEDEM) with the application of three data collection techniques: questionnaire adapted from libraries for archives, interview and the introspective technique of the verbal protocol. The results obtained from the data collections reveal that the lack of manual or procedure guide for an indexing policy, may result in a lack of standards that facilitate the activity of the professional working in an archives, even though the documents have different specificities of a library. It is concluded that there is a lack of studies on the indexing policy in conjunction with the archives, and thus, it hinders the activity of the indexing/thematic description professional, which in the case of CEDEM, would be essential to guarantee a better result in the information retrieval, due to the low number of people dedicated to this activity.