O comportamento do termo dado na ciência da informação

Abstract

Coming from different areas, the terms data, information and knowledge have become the object of study of Information Science, especially after the emergence of Information Technology. The term data, in isolation, presents a restricted and uninformative meaning, being purely objective, however, it represents raw material for a series of observations, measures or facts. The research sought to identify, by means of behavioral frequencies, the behavior of the term data in the area of Information Science, throughout the period studied and its main terms formed by compositions, in addition to creating a classification for the types of behavior. During the empirical research, the steps of data collection, preparation and pre-processing, transformation and presentation ofthe data were carried out, which resulted in a frequency of terms extracted from the corpus. The results show that the term data presents itself, through its behavior, in a continuous and rising form throughout the analyzed period; however, the compound terms present a greater specificity of language domain when compared to the root term, such as, for example, the terms "base_dados", “dados_pesquisa”, “coleta_dados”, “fonte_dados” e “banco_dados”, which added together, exceed more than 50% of the root term. The term “gestão_dados” showed irregular behavior on the rise, which allows us to infer that research addressing the topic has begun to gain notoriety in the area of Information Science in the last analyzed.