Diretrizes para criação de um índice: um estudo de descritores na página eletrônica do curso de Arquivologia da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB)

Abstract

With the technological advances in the fields of information and communication, society started to enjoy other possibilities related to its accesses and uses. Interacting with available information on websites has become a common practice in everyday actions. The internet takes part in the process of dynamics of information. However, while these flows are perceived on the one hand, on the other its fragility regarding the accuracy of retrieval systems of information is viewed. It is common to find problems related to terminological control, mainly, among the various issues, the aspects involving the polysemy, result of the lexical richness of the human language. In this context, the page of the Archival Sciencemajorof the State University of Paraiba (UEPB) is inserted, which is characterized as being an internet environment from an extension action aimed at students of the major and the ones interested in the area. The necessity to treat the information on this website has been reinforced by the rate of access and number of posted material, from which the descriptors were analyzed and selected,starting from the informational demands of users. The objective of this paper was based on describing the construction of an index in order to incorporate the web page as a tool to meet the demands of the indexers and the users of the website. The analysis of the research focused on the quantitative and qualitative prism, based on the triadtreatment – information – recovery. To this end, the methodological look was given under the interdisciplinary perspective, which is essential regarding the dialogues of knowledge in Archival Science, Librarianship, Computer Science, Information Science and Linguistics to develop this instrument. Analyzing the context of the meanings of each feed posted on the website, a set of terms of each of the news was extracted and assigned. It was considered that the index was created as a strategic and necessary element in the vocabulary control in the indexing process and, from the point of view of information retrieval, a useful tool to assist the user in his searches on the website in analysis. The fundamental interdisciplinary nature in the construction and consolidation of instruments and terminological strategies in different learning environments, which includes virtual space, is reinforced.