Análise dos descritores de assunto no Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal de Alagoas.

Abstract

The representation of the theme is a fundamental factor for the process of organization, access and retrieval of information, especially in digital environments such as institutional repositories. In this sense, this research aims to analyze the representation of information in the Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Alagoas, with regard to subject metadata. It is a basic, exploratory research with descriptive characteristics and a qualitative approach. The analysis will be carried out on the thematic representation of the subject metadata present in the 159 monographs deposited through self-archiving by students of the Nursing and Social Work courses in the period from 2020 to 2022. In this preliminary analysis, 40 monographs were mapped, 20 from each course. The first analyzes identified 78 subject metadata in the Nursing monographs, in which 69 presented compliance and 9 did not comply with the subject catalog of the university's Library System, and the Social Work monographs totaled 66 subject metadata, of which 31 complied and 35 without compliance. In this sense, it is clear that the use of tools such as authorized thesauri, as well as guidance from professional librarians, contribute to the standardization and quality of subject metadata.