TENDENCIES OF BRAZILIAN SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ON CULTURAL HERITAGE IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

Abstract

This work is the result of interdisciplinary research and aims to analyze the tendencies of Brazilian research on the theme of Cultural Heritage in the area of Information Science, thus observing how a concept interacts with a certain area of knowledge. The focus of this study is the research that involves the theme of Cultural Heritage in its different shades, considering that this concept is characterized by its multidisciplinary nature, that is, that is not restricted to an area, but rather, it dialogues with the various areas of the knowledge. The field of study was the Brazilian open access scientific journals that embrace the areas of Archivology, Library Science, Museology and Information Science. The period selected for data collection and subsequent research was from 2000 to 2014, with searches in 24 journals, retrieving a total of 219 articles, of which 56 were part of the analysis of the study, evidencing the themes worked by the researchers related to the areas analyzed and Published in national journals. He observed a gradual increase in the publication of studies involving the theme of Cultural Patrimony from 2011 to 2014, mainly in the area of Archival Science, mainly with studies that relate the preservation of collections and the concept of memory and identity. We also analyzed the most productive authors in relation to the central theme of this study, as well as their academic formations, which relate to Information Science and History and consequently open interdisciplinary dialogue with Cultural Heritage themes.