Academia Politécnica do Porto: contributos para o estudo de um Sistema de Informação

• Autor(a) principal: Maria Júlia Simões Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/114161
• topic: Ciências da comunicação; Media and communications

The University of Porto's Old Document Collection consists of several information systems that derive from different entities, which although related to one another, had a distinct identity and path. The present dissertation attempts to give emphasis to one of these information systems: the one from Polytechnic Academy of Porto. Therefore, in the context of the University of Porto's Old Document Collection it's sought to organize, represent and describe the collection of the Polytechnic Academy of Porto.This dissertation is elaborated in the field of Information Science, approaching themes such as information management, organization and representation of information. The Quadripolar Method is used as the scientific method, and as an interpretative tool the Systemic theory.An organic-functional study of the Polytechnic Academy of Porto was carried out, thus allowing the understanding e visualization of its structure and evolution, since its creation to its last moment. This structure influenced, naturally, its information system. Thereby, it was described the constitution and evolution of the information system, according to all the records available and previous studies.It was also made an inventory of part of the documentation of the Academy, indicating its present location so it was clear the way that the documentation was spread. The inventory was divided in a few aspects: the study of the Academy's catalog, published in 1883, and search for the books, the cataloging work on the first floor of the University of Porto's Old Document Collection and the inventory of the Collection of the Botanic Institute, located in the Sciences Faculty.The analysis of the Academy's information system led to the conclusion that the information that was part of it is now scattered by different institutions, like the University Rectory, the Sciences Faculty and Engineering Faculty of the University of Porto. Thus, it will be necessary a meticulous and prolonged work, so we can truly understand the dimension of the information system and reunite it.The present work opens doors for probable future projects, with the possibility of reuniting digitally this system so the history of an institution that gave such an important contribution for the development of a country can be publicly displayed and appreciated.