Ciência da Informação e Arquitetura da Informação: um estudo sobre contribuições da Organização do Conhecimento

Abstract

Information Architecture (IA) is a field of knowledge of Information Science (IS) intrinsically linked to Computer Science and information technologies. Given the scientific production of Information Architecture, it is important to study its theoretical basis, which appropriates the principles of Knowledge Organization (KO), which is the link between Information Science and Architecture. Theoretical and conceptual in nature, this study deals with a contribution to the understanding of Information Architecture from the perspective of Knowledge Organization. Thus, it establishes as a research problem the scarcity of IA studies in the scope of IS, especially in relation to the KO. This is a basic, exploratory and descriptive bibliographic research with a quali-quantitative approach, in which the scientific production indexed in the following databases was mapped: Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações of Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (BDTD-Ibict), Base de Dados Referenciais de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação (Brapci), Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (LISTA); Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). To this end, we employed as method the Systematic Literature Review (SLR), according to Kitchenham (2004), which considers three stages: planning, conduction and publication of results. It uses as technological resources the Parsifal tool, for extraction of the review data, and the Mendeley system, a bibliographic reference manager and a facilitator for reading and summarizing. As a result, 80 primary studies were retrieved: BDTD-Ibict (12), Brapci (22), LISTA (23), SciELO (12), Scopus (6) and WoS (4), plus 1 included manually, and after the use of inclusion and exclusion criteria, 10 documents could be considered accepted for reading the full text. The conclusion is that Knowledge Organization contributes to the development of Information Architecture through Knowledge Organization Systems, which help in the navigational treatment and semantic description of informational environments.