A área de organização e uso da informação representada nos estudos do programa de pós-graduação em ciência da informação da UFMG

Abstract

We analyzed the theses and dissertations in the Postgraduate Program in Information Science of the Escola de Ciência da Informação of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The goal was to map and define the profile of the studies that have been conducted in the Organization and Use of Information (OUI) line of research. After identifying 102 documents, we indexing them,and we analyzed the basic classes: theme, research type and method. Performed the analysis, it was identified that the most studied themes are focused in the areas of Knowledge Representation and Scientific Communication. The types of research more used were the Qualitative Analyzes and the Exploratory Research. About the research methods, the results pointed to the Data Analysis and the Statistical and Mathematical Methods as the most widely used. These results demonstrate that the studies conducted in the research line OUI are in accordance with the objectives of this area of knowledge.