Uma análise do Repositório Huet sob o prisma da encontrabilidade da informação

Abstract

This article reports the experience of applying a checklist to analyze the Huet Digital Repository of the National Institute of Education for the Deaf (INES) with respect to the attributes of information findability. The general objective of this work is to analyze the findability attributes of the Huet Repository. As for the methodology to be the research is a case study, which had the Huet Digital Repository as its locus. The checklist proposed by Vechiato, Oliveira and Vidotti (2016) was used. It systematizes the attributes of information findability for informational environments. The Huet Repository presents problems in some findability attributes, which are: instrument of terminological control, information discovery, accessibility and usability, mobility, convergence and ubiquity. It was not possible to analyze the attributes of: folksonomy, wayffinding and intentionality, as they are absent in the structure of the Huet Repository. Most of the attributes prescribed in the checklist are present in the structure / architecture of the repository, thus were subject to analysis. For those attributes that were qualified as problematic or absent, this weakness can be solved by customizing and implementing them, mostly using modules provided by the DSpace software.