Arquitetura da informação pervasiva em repositórios digitais institucionais: estudo de caso do repositório da UFRN

Abstract

Discusses the Architecture of Pervasive Information (AIP) in the context of Institutional Digital Repositories (IDRs). Therefore, it aims to apply the adapted model of AIP in the scenario involving the IDRs. As specific objectives, the research is divided in: understanding IDRs as complex informational ecologies and memory space; to adapt the general AIP model to the context of the IDRs and, finally, to apply the AIP model to the IDR of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). It is based on the quadripolar method, which bases the aspects: epistemological (epistemological center), framing the object of research in the paradigmatic postcustodial context; theoretical (theoretical center), in which the concepts that based the research were defined; technical model (technical center), using as techniques to solve the problem proposed the bibliographic research, the methodological model adapted from Oliveira (2014) for the understanding of AIP for IDRs and a semistructured interview; (morphological center), in which the following results were obtained: lists of categories and graphic representations, such as the production of the model adapted for IDRs and the exhibition of conceptual pictures and maps to visualize the distribution of the existing relationships and the ecological design in the IDR of UFRN, seeking to demonstrate how the AIP is configured in Institutional Digital Repositories.It concludes that the IDRs have an ecological structure with a diversity of environments, spaces, technologies and users that contribute to the application of AIP, but does not allow the tendency of movement, propagation, infiltration and total diffusion of these elements within the ecology.