RELEVANCE AND PERTINENCE IN INFORMATION SCIENCE: study on contextual information representation and retrieval in digital repositories
Ontology. Digital Repositories. Information Representation. Information Retrieval.
Information retrieval studies contribute to the possibility of developing mechanisms in order to obtain gains
in accuracy when identifying relevant documents for a search. This research, in progress, aims to contribute
to the development of this interdisciplinary field, seeking an answer to the following question: How is it
possible to achieve quality and consistency in representation, measure relevance and bring to the maximum
the pertinence of the responses of an information retrieval system, as the Digital Repositories, to user
requests? Thus, the general objective of this research is to suggest new elements of representation and use
of ontology to improve the information retrieval in Digital Repositories. Its specific objectives are: to
expose the process of representing informational materials, considering the semiology process; describe the
characteristics of the documents and their possibilities of representation in Digital Repositories; and propose
the adoption of new elements of representation and making use of ontologies based on semantics and
pragmatics for representation in Digital Repositories. This research has a hypothetical-deductive approach,
of an exploratory nature and its object of application is the Reference Database of Articles of Journals in
Information Science (Brapci), a repository where most of the Brazilian scientific production in Information
Science is concentrated. As a result, it is expected to bring the librarian closer to the process of developing
media such as repositories in order to improve information retrieval processes.