Entre verdade e validação da informação: os efeitos políticos e sociais do documento “Relatório Final da Comissão Nacional da Verdade”

Abstract

Research on historical or administrative documents is not characterized as extrinsic to Information Science; on the contrary, they are confined to the origin of the formation of the field. If we consider the existence of an evolutionary line of development of techniques and theories on the manipulation, storage, dissemination and preservation of records of the knowledge initiated throughout the nineteenth century in the activity called Bibliography. This paper analyzes the final document of the National Truth Commission of Brazil, investigating the political and social effects of the establishment, development and conclusion of the work of the National Truth Commission, which is formalized from its final report. With this, it is based on the theory of the document, in the scope of Information Science. It shows the importance of returning to studies of documents and processes and effects of materiality of information. In this sense, the action of recording information is configured as an act that carries with it an intention and a choice about what should be documented and what should not be documented. Within a state commission is an action that reflects a policy of information and memory and that generates manifestations in the political and social spheres. In order to evaluate the political and social impacts of the final report of the National Truth Commission, we evaluated three sites related to the CNV, namely: the sites of the National Truth Commission and the Revealed Memory Reference Center which are under the management of the National Archive; the databases available on the Portal of the Center for the Improvement of Higher Education (CAPES); and the media, specifically the newspapers Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo and O Globo. The purpose of these spaces of observation is to create a framework that includes the repercussion of the work of the National Truth Commission and the use of the final report of the National Truth Commission as a research theme. The research used as a cut-off the period between the years 2011 and 2018 that covers the mandates of the presidents Dilma Rousseff (01/01/11 to 08/31/2016) and Michel Temer (01/09/2016 to 12/31/2018).