Contribuições teóricas e práticas da arquitetura da Informação para a gestão e avaliação de repositórios institucionais

• Autor(a) principal: Campos, Arthur Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/31584
• topic: Tecnologia da Informação; Repositórios digitais; Ambientes informacionais – Avaliação; Arquitetura da informação; Sociedade em rede; Information Technology; Digital repositories; Assessment of information environments; Information architecture; Network society; Tecnología de la información; Repositorios digitales; Evaluación de entornos de información; Arquitectura informacional; Sociedad en red; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO

Institutional Repositories are digital information environments structured to safeguard and make available an institution's scientific production. They are governed by an Information Policy that must structure the responsible Management Committee, the informational materials that must be deposited, the Information Architecture of the environment, the organization of materials, among other factors. They attribute network communication and often lack a structure that highlights context, content, and user. This research studies Institutional Repositories as favorable environments for Open Science, within the sociological categorization of network society. Communication and sharing of information and knowledge by the subject in the network society is generated through technological devices and access to the internet and, within the scope of scientific knowledge, network communication affects scientists and society in general. To this end, Institutional Repositories contribute to externalizing the scientific production of researchers at an institution and contribute to the formalization of a research and sharing network at national and international level, from the perspective of open access. To reach a wide audience, the provision of information in these environments must be understandable, making it easier for individuals to navigate, access and use the scientific materials present, in addition to effectively uniting management, informational content and users. In view of this, it is necessary to have input from Information Architecture which, being a discipline that comprises the design, project, and structure of digital environments, can assist in the access and use of scientific knowledge by the subject in an Institutional Repository. The general objective of the study is to investigate how the theoretical and practical aspects of Information Architecture can contribute to the management and evaluation of institutional repositories from the perspective of the context, content, and user’s dimensions. Methodologically, it is research with a qualitative approach that is configured in the epistemological, political, theoretical, technical, ethical, and morphological dimensions. It uses documentary research to analyze the Information Policies of the Institutional Repositories of Brazilian Federal Universities and Portuguese universities, with the purpose of finding out whether these documents consider Information Architecture in the design and maintenance of these repositories. It carries out a content analysis in national and international literature that aims to find cores of meaning and establish categories that relate Institutional Repositories and Information Architecture. With these inputs, it results in guiding guidelines for the management of these digital information environments, focusing on the context, content and user dimensions of Information Architecture and creates a tool designed for their evaluation. Considers that, with the guidelines created, it is possible to guide decision-making within the scope of the Management Committee, the Information Policy and the context, content and user dimensions of the Information Architecture; and, with the tool, the aforementioned Committee can have a practical instrument that contributes to a better structuring of information, icons, interface organization, interrelationship with institutional identity, content layout and, mainly, improving interaction between the user community and the Institutional Repository.