O cordel e os enlaces com a Ciência da Informação: necessária revisão quanto ao seu potencial tipológico na esfera descritiva.

Abstract

The Brazilian Cordel is a representative and symbolic document of our identity and cultural memory. Its educational and social functions are perceived over time, when the poet includes the people into the literate world, connecting it to the information. Since 2006, working with collections of Cordel in the perspective of Information Science, misconceptions and gaps were perceived regarding the elements that describe it in the cataloging point of view. Our research problem lies in the inclusion of the Cordel as a new documental typology in the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Based on an extract of our thesis, which is ongoing, this article aims to indicate the particularities involving the physical representation of the Brazilian Cordel, contemplating its peculiarities which establish it as a Brazilian cultural product and unique. The approach used was quantitative and qualitative. Cordel from the early twentieth century was used, which belongs to the collection of Biblioteca de Obras Raras Átila Almeida, and from the twenty-first century, purchased in bookstores. This research, bibliographic and documental, also had interviews performed with researchers from the Library and with cordelistas. Documentary analysis was used, detecting in each Cordel piece aspects that allow it to be categorized as unique. Based on the 8 structural areas signalized in the Anglo- American Cataloguing Rules, the various descriptive elements that involve the regularities and discrepancies on the Cordel were explained. We highlight the issues of authorial order and property, the acrostic, the illustrations, the compulsory summary in the "note" space, etc. In this sense, its inclusion in the technical manuals is supported, clarifying to the cataloguer perspectives of document analysis inherent to the Brazilian Cordel, fact that justifies its typological characterization.