VOCABULARY IN CONTROLLED REPOSITORIES BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

COMPARATIVE STUDY

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the comparative study established between two institutional repositories known by the academic community in order to subsidize the construction of the repository Department of Archival and Library Science at the Federal University of Amazonas (DAB). Thus, the number of teachers and students has grown, and with it, the number of academic productions. Due to the nature of the courses that were included in the DAB, beyond the informational guard, it is cited as an informational disclosure of activities related to daily academic thereof. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important for the DAB, to have a tool which can represent both the information contained in the technical and scientific productions, as enabling their recovery in a safe, efficient and effective manner. As a general goal, establish a comparative study between two representation of information systems, supporting the construction of a controlled vocabulary to the technical- scientific production of DAB. For this, they were taken based on the following specific objectives: to present the importance of documentary language to the process of bibliographic recovery; demonstrate the relevance of the controlled vocabulary for the representation and retrieval of information; analyze the information retrieval system developed by two institutions of higher education, based on the controlled vocabulary used in the online repositories. To this end, we opted for the comparative method, from the study of two existing repositories, in order to serve as a basis for the construction of the DAB repository. The conclusion is relevant to how UFAM remain active before the academic community at national and international level.