Information Organization in Archives

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013672
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Class material will taught via lectures using texts and IT tools as aids. Students will be encouraged to actively participate in classroom discussions. Students will be given reading assignments, and the consequent analysis and discussion of relevant national and international texts. Students will actively participate in exercises which are designed to teach students to apply the procedures for the organization display of archival information.

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

i) learn the genesis and structure of archival information;

ii) learn analysis, organization and display techniques of archival information;

iii) gain skill to solve specific problems in information management (in every phase of the flow of information) in organizations.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The Information

1.1. Concept and object of study of I.S.

1.2. Relationship between Information, Knowledge and Communication in the current Information and Knowledge Society

1.3. Archival Information (definition and properties/atributes)

2. Archival Information Systems in the Post-custodial Era

2.1. Genesis and organizational and functional structure of information

2.2. Strategic information management in organizations: from integrated management to the holistic and systemic view

2.2.1. Information classifications and organization

2.2.2. Descriptive standards: ISAD(G), ISAAR (CPF), ISDIAH, ISDF.

3. Presentation of Archival Information

3.1. Application exercises.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Cristina Vieira de Freitas

Assessment Methods

Assessment
In-class participation : 10.0%
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 70.0%

Bibliography

CIA .(2004). ISAD(G): norma geral internacional de descrição arquivística: adoptada pelo Comité de Normas de Descrição. Lisboa: IAN/TT, 2004.

CIA. (2012).  ISAAR(CPF): norma internacional de registos de autoridade arquivística para pessoas colectivas, pessoas singulares e famílias. Madrid: Alianza.

DGARQ. (2011). Orientações para a descrição arquivística. Lisboa: DGARQ.

NP 4041: informação e documentação: Terminologia arquivística: conceitos básicos. (2005). Lisboa: IPQ.

Ribeiro, F. (1997-1998).  A Classificação em arquivos: processo natural ou arranjo a posteriori? Leituras, Série 3(2), 119-126.

Silva, A. M. da (et al.).  (2002). Arquivística: teoria e prática de uma ciência da informação. Porto: Afrontamento.

Silva, A. M. da (2006). A informação: da compreensão do fenómeno e construção do objecto científico. Porto: Edições Afrontamento.