Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T15:23:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4318501 bytes, checksum: 62d4918de7532002c39269f9e6dfdcfc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The research aims at understanding the scientificity character of Archival Science in light of Information Science so as this problematization may have an outstanding role in the archival context. In this way, the following hypothesis was taken into account: In the Archival Science, the logic of instrumental action hinders the field character as science when, in fact, it is unfolded as a technique. In this perspective, by means of the evidential method and the critical hermeneutics, we searched through interpretative evidence to find clues for the epistemological uncertainness in which the Archival Science is circumscribed, especially, in the theoretical and methodological context. Therefore, through this evidential action, the possibilities of an Archival Science technique or of an Archival Science - Science were measured. In effect, it was observed that the Archival Science can not ignore the technique as procedure, but one major concern is related to the scientification of the technique which became the Archival Science ideology; the first sense and the last one about which the reason of being is constituted as basis. Thereby, the evidential and interpretative results demonstrate that if the Archival Science is reduced to a set of techniques, it refers to a product and not to a science that, usually, produces truths and implements them by creating products. Consequently, it can be concluded that this study enabled to perceive that a reflective action in the context of Archival Science research can make the Archival Science to distance from the functional/pragmatic model that registered it in the historicization process. / sob a luz da Ciência da Informação, de modo que essa problematização tenha um papel fundamental no contexto arquivístico. Desse modo, partimos da seguinte hipótese: Em Arquivologia, a lógica do agir instrumental obstrui o caráter do campo como ciência quando, na verdade, desdobra-se mais como técnica. Nesse sentido, por intermédio do método indiciário e da hermenêutica crítica, buscamos através dos indícios interpretativos, encontrar as pistas para as incertezas epistemológicas em que a Arquivologia está circunscrita, sobretudo, no contexto teórico-metodológico. Logo, através dessa ação indiciária medimos as possibilidades de uma Arquivologia técnica ou de uma Arquivologia Ciência. Com efeito, observamos que a Arquivologia não pode fugir da técnica como procedimento, mas, o que nos deixa preocupados é que a cientificação da técnica se tornou a própria ideologia da Arquivologia, o sentido primeiro e último sobre o qual a razão de ser constitui-se como base. De todo modo, os resultados indiciários e interpretativos demonstram que se a Arquivologia reduz-se a um conjunto de técnicas, trata-se de um produto e não de uma ciência que via de regra, produz verdades e implementa verdades criando produtos. Por conseguinte, concluímos que esse estudo permitiu perceber que uma ação reflexiva no contexto da pesquisa em Arquivologia, poderá fazer com que a Arquivologia se distancie do modelo funcional/pragmático que a marcou no processo de historicização.

Die Forschung zum Informationsverhalten in Archiven hat wiederholt gezeigt, dass der Zugang zu Archivbeständen durch einen grundlegenden Wissensmangel über die Informationsbedürfnisse von Archivnutzern eingeschränkt wird. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die Vertiefung des empirischen Verständnisses der spezifischen Informationsbedürfnisse von Archivnutzern und damit die Leistung eines grundlegenden Beitrags zur Verbesserung von archivischen Informationssystemen. Dazu untersucht die primäre Forschungsfrage die Möglichkeit der Erarbeitung einer Ontologie, die in angemessener Weise das Erkenntnisinteresse von Nutzern an Archive repräsentiert, und auf formale Anfragen, adäquate Antworten erzeugt. Zu diesem Zweck analysiert die Studie schriftliche Nutzeranfragen an das Bundesarchiv und das Nationalarchiv von Norwegen (Arkivverket). Die primären Forschungsergebnisse umfassen einen methodischen Ansatz, der eine interpretative Analyse schriftlich formulierter Fragen an Archive vertritt und, als Ergebnis seiner erfolgreichen Anwendung, das Archival Knowledge Model (AKM) erarbeitet. Das AKM ist eine ontologische Repräsentation des Gegenstandbereichs, der typischerweise als das Erkenntnisinteresse von Fragen an Archiven erscheint. Die Studie zeigt, dass derartige Anfragen dominante, grundlegende ontologische Muster aufweisen, die auf einen relativ kleinen Satz ontologischer Entitäten formalisiert werden können. Das AKM repräsentiert damit formal und explizit die Informationsbedürfnisse von Archivnutzern in Form einer Ontologie. Diese stellt ein konstitutives Modell für die Evaluierung bestehender Archivinformationssysteme und Datenschemata zur Verfügung und kann die Entwicklung neuer Katalogisierungsregeln oder musterbasierter Abfrageanwendungen unterstützen. / Research on the information behaviour of archive users has repeatedly shown that access to archival knowledge bases such as via finding aids is hindered by a certain deficiency in knowledge about users and their information needs. The objective of this study is to increase our empirical understanding of the information needs of archive users in order to facilitate access to archival information systems. The primary research question explores the possibility of creating an ontology that can reasonably represent archival inquiries and their probable interpretations as formal queries to the model of the archival target world that would generate an adequate response. For this purpose, the study analyzes archival information needs as expressed in written natural language questions submitted to the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) and the National Archives of Norway (Arkivverket). The primary results point to a methodological approach that advocates an interpretative analysis of written natural language inquiries and, as the result of its practical and successful application, the Archival Knowledge Model (AKM). This constitutes an ontological representation of the subject matter typically appearing as the interest of archival inquiries. The study thus shows that written natural language questions submitted to archives exhibit dominant fundamental ontological patterns, which can be formalized to a relatively small set of entities utilizing the CIDOC CRM and compatible extensions wherever its semantics are found to be inadequate. The AKM formally and explicitly represents the information needs of archive users in the form of an ontology, thus providing a constitutive model for the evaluation of existing archive information systems and data schemas and may inform the development of new cataloguing rules or pattern-based query applications.