Representação de documentos digitais: uma proposta para recuperação integrada de acervos culturais

Abstract

In order to investigate patterns of representation and treatment of bibliographic, archival and museum documents, with the perspective of integrated retrieval of digital cultural collections, the research is developed within a memory institution, in the face of controversies and efforts between these areas to integrate their metadata without giving up their prerogatives. The issue goes through issues beyond administrative decisions, as it also concerns the potential to meet a range of users' needs and the nature of the holdings. Given the advent of digital technology, this problem has been increasing in modern information systems, but studies point to solutions aimed at the interoperability of information retrieval systems. In this sense, the concept of document and digital document of bibliographic, archival and museological nature are studied; the converging and diverging points; and the standards of representation applied in the institutional repository. From the analysis of the Dublin Core elements used by the areas, common elements and qualified convergent elements are identified. In a second and third stages of the analysis, the convergence of EAD and LIDO elements in relation to Dublin Core is also performed, in order to constitute the application profile. Thus, integrated retrieval is proposed through the elaborated application profile, considering that it makes it possible for users to discover information and integrated access to bibliographic, archival and digital museum collections.