Fotografia em foco: análise da sua representatividade nas pesquisas científicas da base de dados referencial de artigos de periódicos em Ciência da Informação (BRAPCI) - 2018 a 2022

Abstract

Photography is a resource that came to be defined as an information medium, and therefore as a means of transmitting knowledge in the 20th century. As an object of study, photography arouses the interest of Information Science because it has descriptive elements and the basis of the language of indexing, thus the language of indexing is configured as an activity for the maintenance of databases. This study surveys the articles published on photography in the Reference Database of Journal Articles in Information Science (BRAPCI) from 2018 to 2022. This is a descriptive and bibliographic study, with a view to qualitative analysis to organize the information retrieved. The results showed that 54 articles were retrieved in the periods defined for the investigation, from 2018 to 2022, covering a period of five years, including the pandemic period. The most articles were produced in 2020, with 15 articles, followed by 2018 (11 articles), 2019 (13 articles), 2021 (7 articles) and 2022 (8 articles). In conclusion, the recurring subjects detected were: photography as a document; organization of the collection; historical archives; indexing; digital images; social inclusion; technical processing.