A ordenação como processo de Organização da Informação: uma discussão (necessária) sobre classificação bibliográfica

Abstract

In information systems of bibliographic approach, arrangement is a process of Information Organization which aims to offer arrangements for documents and documents’ metadata. It also functions in locating, managing and defining the reading mode of collections. The choice of document attributes that orient the adoption of a method for executing the process is conditioned by the priority function. However, the approach in the field’s predominant literature erases the notion of arrangement as a process, placing it as secondary to bibliographic classification. In these terms, it is relevant to investigate arrangement as a process from the perspective of bibliographic classification as a way of deepening its fundamentals’ comprehension as well as widening the understanding of bibliographic classification as it refers to the materialization of arrangements. Therefore, the research aims to highlight the conceptual and methodological basis that sustain arrangement as a process of Information Organization, exploring in particular the contingency relationships caused by the use of bibliographic classification. This theoretical research on the conceptual and methodological dimensions related to arrangement follows a qualitative approach. Bibliographic research is predominantly adopted as the methodological procedure. In the development of the research, the theme is contextualized in the scope of Information Organization, with the exploration of its characterization of the terminology and meaning attributed to the process. It follows the identification of different types of arrangement considering the objects being operated (document arrangement and documents’ metadata arrangement), the functions the process aims to attend (locating, managing and reading mode), and the methods required (chronological, alphabetical and classificatory). The analysis undertaken also raises the functions attributed to bibliographic classification and identifies arrangement as the fundamental process it aims to meet. It is concluded that arrangement, viewed for its historical- and conceptual constitution and in contemporaneity as producing arrangements that are part of bibliographic information systems, presents a wider scope than that of bibliographic classification, being therefore characterized as a process of Information Organization.