Repositório de Objetos Educacionais Digitais: análise do uso do BIOE na perspectiva da organização e recuperação da informação

Abstract

It presents the results from research done at International Database of Educational Objects (BIOE) about treatment of information in a digital context (cataloguing, classification, indexing), intending to respond to the following questions: How educational objects are treated under informational point of view at BIOE? What criteria users apply to access the objects at BIOE's repository? It aims to evaluate how educational objects are treated under informational point of view at BIOE, as well as the strategies for users' research and information retrieval. Uses as methodology exploratory research and functionalist approach to analyze BIOE's performance as a digital educational repository. Two questionnaires were used as a research tool to collect data, applied by e-mail and google docs to two groups: (15) cataloguers and (15) BIOE's users. Presents as result of the research that cataloguers with librarian science major, as well as the ones with different majors, show knowledge of treatment and organization of educational objects at BIOE; applies that the repository has access politics and have the need to improve access velocity. Points that most users don`t use any boolean search strategies during research; explicits that search from known items and/or subjects allow access to Educational Objects (OEs) and shows flaws inside organization, search and information retrieval processes, noticed by most of cataloguers and users.