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In this article, we discuss the ways in which Digital Humanities projects organise their resources, and argue for the need to collaborate with specialised services from other institutions for specific tasks, just as research publishers do. More specifically, we argue that libraries have a new central role to play in the publication of research data in repositories. Using the TextGrid Repository (TGR) as an example, we present its main components, its history, its main features, and discuss its advantages and disadvantages in comparison with similar repositories and technologies. We then present its current development within the Text+ consortium, both in the form of new features but also in the integration of existing corpora, making it interesting not only for German literature (as has been the case until now), but also for other traditions, especially Spanish literature.

Abstract In this article, we present a new dataset covering metadata on 14 Brazilian International Relations (BIR) journals and more than 5000 articles published between 1997 and 2021. We collected the data by harvesting the journals’ public web pages via web scraping and later cleaned and structured the information in a rectangular format. A complete understanding of the International Relations field in Brazil requires a deep analysis of the ecosystem of IR academic journals and engaging explicitly and exclusively with scientific articles published in such venues. But, as of today, scientometric analysis covering BIR is rare and limited, as primary indexing sources and popular databases do not fully cover Brazilian International Relations journals. By presenting and publishing the dataset we aim to overcome such a barrier and encourage further scientometric studies in the country.

We are currently witnessing a global increase in the provision of software platforms and services, offered at ‘no cost’ by large corporations, to higher education. The business model behind these services is largely based on the collection and analysis of massive quantities of user data and metadata, collected through educational packages, which include e-mail, video-conferencing, groupware, file sharing, and other integrated services. The penetration of these services in higher education worldwide is largely unknown. In this study we discuss a methodology and a software script developed to collected new data for all 448 public higher education institutions in all 13 countries in South America. The data show that for every ten higher education institutions in the region, eight have services and platforms offered by such businesses. We contend that the adoption of these services is largely due to disinvestment in public education, and threaten the operational autonomy of institutions in regards to research and teaching, while leading to concerns in regards to data control, privacy, and transparency for teachers, administrators and students. /// Actualmente asistimos a un aumento global de la provisión de plataformas y servicios de software, ofrecidos "sin costes" por grandes empresas, a la educación superior. El modelo de negocio que subyace a estos servicios se basa en gran medida en la recopilación y el análisis de cantidades masivas de datos y metadatos de usuarios, recogidos a través de paquetes educativos, que incluyen correo electrónico, videoconferencias, groupware, intercambio de archivos y otros servicios integrados. Se desconoce, en gran medida, la penetración de estos servicios en la enseñanza superior a nivel mundial. En este estudio discutimos una metodología y un script de software desarrollado para recolectar datos inéditos para todas las 448 instituciones públicas de educación superior en los 13 países de América del Sur. Los datos muestran que por cada diez instituciones de educación superior en la región, ocho tienen servicios y plataformas ofrecidas por estas empresas. Sostenemos que la adopción de estos servicios se debe en gran medida a la desinversión en la educación pública, y amenazan la autonomía operativa de las instituciones en lo que respecta a la investigación y la enseñanza, al tiempo que generan preocupaciones en cuanto al control de los datos, la privacidad y la transparencia para los profesores, administradores y estudiantes.

Introduction: In the eScience environment, digital research objects are characterized by having a complex and long-life cycle, which depends on different disciplinary contexts and perspectives of (re)use. This lifecycle starts before the start of research and extends beyond the end of the project, along this journey, various types of metadata are added to objects, assigned by different actors, including those generated automatically by scientific instruments and workflow tools, in a continuous process of adding value to datasets and other research objects. In this context, digital research objects are accompanied by a wide range of metadata - with many functions and properties - that often surpass the data themselves in volume and even in importance, configuring a "scientific big metadata" that is difficult to organize and manage. Objective: Systematically present the functions of new metadata to support metadata management and the construction of disciplinary schemes. Methodology: Underlying the construction of the proposal, four axes provide methodological support to the study: historical, pragmatic, standardization, and epistemological. Results: As a result, a model is proposed for schematizing the various elements of metadata based on their functionalities, based on the assumption of the connection between eScience and Information Science established by big metadata. Conclusion: It is concluded that big metadata creates a connection between eScience and CI, and that in addition to the need to curate research objects, specific FAIR management of metadata is also necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The representation of the theme is a fundamental factor for the process of organization, access and retrieval of information, especially in digital environments such as institutional repositories. In this sense, this research aims to analyze the representation of information in the Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Alagoas, with regard to subject metadata. It is a basic, exploratory research with descriptive characteristics and a qualitative approach. The analysis will be carried out on the thematic representation of the subject metadata present in the 159 monographs deposited through selfarchiving by students of the Nursing and Social Work courses in the period from 2020 to 2022. In this preliminary analysis, 40 monographs were mapped, 20 from each course. The first analyzes identified 78 subject metadata in the Nursing monographs, in which 69 presented compliance and 9 did not comply with the subject catalog of the university's Library System, and the Social Work monographs totaled 66 subject metadata, of which 31 complied and 35 without compliance. In this sense, it is clear that the use of tools such as authorized thesauri, as well as guidance from professional librarians, contribute to the standardization and quality of subject metadata. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article refers to a study that aimed to investigate the performance of semantic interoperability in the cataloging systems of four Brazilian modernist museums, created in the forties, namely: Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ), and Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (MASC). The dissertation discusses, based on specialized literature, the problems that involve the lack of standardization in dealing with museum documentation, specifically in cataloging forms, emphasizing the importance of this document for the performance of various activities that occur in museological institutions. The methodology used is a descriptive, bibliographic, and documental approach. Regarding the results obtained, it can be concluded that the cataloging cards with the largest amount of metadata for art collections were also more likely to provide semantic interoperability with the other cards analyzed. In conclusion, we highlight the importance of structuring and standardizing this tool to describe the type of collection that is intended to be cataloged, considering that such actions contribute to information retrieval, as well as the performance of semantic interoperability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is about data repositories, in particular about metadata for a description of sets of data systems. It addresses the FAIR initiative and FAIR Data Point as a technology that helps to retrieve information from data repositories. It aims to assess, based on FAIR Data Point metadata, the quality of metadata in Repositories in the Biodiversity area. Analyzes how the description of data sets occurs in the Ecological Studies Data Repository and compares the metadata proposed by FAIR Data Point, a system that specifies a set of standardized metadata to be implemented in a Repository. As a methodology, it integrates bibliographic, exploratory, descriptive and documentary research with a qualitative approach. That said, it is concluded that some metadata identified in Ecological Studies Data Repository are common to FAIR Data Point, and others do not present similarity. Furthermore, improvements are proposed in the description of data sets, making their description unique and precise, especially regarding the representation of research data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: As part of the innovation process, clinical research generates valuable data to assess technological solutions in healthcare, linking scientific research and knowledge transfer to provide beneficial innovations for society. However, the generated clinical data do not appear to be adequately available to the scientific community and society. The present study seeks to analyze the effectiveness of databases of clinical records as a source of relevant information for scientific research. We conducted a comparative analysis of 27 correlations of clinical trials between three different technologies and their scientific articles by consulting two information sources. Making connections between the data from these sources proved to be challenging. In addition, a considerable time lag (40 months on average) was observed between the end of the study and the publication of the results. Among the completed studies, 56% had not published their results in any of the channels studied. In addition to the paucity of reported results, the poor publication record of clinical trials is further evident in the lack of information on these studies in scientific publications. Thus, databases of clinical records are a potential source of information and may come to represent a central tool in the search for new technological solutions in healthcare.

The advance of information technology has enabled the migration of analog objects to the digital environment, allowing memory institutions, linked to cultural heritage, new alternatives to manage their data. Digital curation becomes relevant in this new context of accelerated production of data and metadata, both in the management and in the availability of collections on the Internet, allowing informational cultural heritage to enter the digital environment. The objective is to present the role of digital curation in cultural heritage collections. Content analysis is used as a methodology to propose categories of analysis, survey and literature review on digital curation in cultural heritage collections, in order to understand the state of the art of this theme in Information Science. The background and historical trajectory of digital curation are presented, as well as a current overview of digital curation in the scope of Information Science, indicating opportunities and challenges relevant to the development of digital platforms of cultural heritage with network quality through actions of well-planned digital curation, supported by the fields of information and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Created in 1996, Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography is native digital journal which was conceived from the start for publication in all European languages. In order to better promote its authors’ articles internationally, it is undertaking actions to improve and translate its metadata into English, Spanish and Chinese. CybergeoNet is a laureate of the AAP "Scientific Translations" launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) in France. It has developed an efficient, and quality, collaborative translation method that is transferable to other scientific journals published and managed by research laboratories. The aim is to ensure that authors and editorial teams become more competent in translation. A guide of good practices is proposed to the community. The impact of linguistic improvements made to the journal’s metadata is also measured with the consultation statistics provided by the OpenEdition platform. All documents are freely available online.

Sulfated polysaccharides (SPs) from the edible red seaweed Crassiphycus birdiae have antioxidant activity. Previous studies have shown that SPs, when in the form of silver nanoparticles (AgNps), had better antioxidant activity than in its original form. However, there is no data about AgNps synthesized with the SPs from C. birdiae. Then, AgNps synthesized with the SPs from C. birdiae were obtained and evaluated as antioxidant agents. The AgNps detection and size measurement were made by dynamic light scattering (DLS). The PS reducing capacity was evaluated by the total antioxidant capacity test (TAC). The antioxidant capacity of AgNps and SPs was also determined by ferric chelation test. In addition, their protein and sugar content were determined spectrophotometrically. The PS showed TAC, and this allowed the synthesis of AgNps. The AgNps showed an average size of 117.6 nm. No protein contamination was found in the SPs neither AgNps. The sugar content in the AgNps suspension was higher (55.7%) than that found in the SPs solution (49.7%). The AgNps suspension presented an iron chelating activity 25% higher than the of SPs solution. The results showed that the SPs from C. birdiae, in the form of nanoparticles, had their iron chelating activity enhanced, indicating that the silver nanoparticles can be subject of further studies to identify their potential as antioxidants agents in different applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facebook co-produces and distributes fake content as an essential part of the Covid-19 disinformation ecosystem. We developed a content analysis of 103 fact-checking stories about the pandemic published by Brazilian news outlets Aos Fatos and Lupa between January 24 and March 31, 2020. In addition, we analyzed 109 fake content posts related to such stories. It relates journalistic procedures and the constitution of the scientific fact, considering the chains of reference, a concept proposed by Bruno Latour. We argue that disinformation chains - fake news - try to simulate journalistic reference chains, mimicking truth (Reference Mode, REF). However, fake news' references can be understood only considering religion belief (Religion Mode, REL). Results highlights that fake news and fact-checking stories distinguishes themselves by different ways in which they attach believers. Some features of Facebook, as metadata remotion when processing images and sharing options, reinforces fake content. Such process is efficient to promote an identity attachment to the content, even though its references fail when audited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Digital preservation has been one of the conc erns of several areas of knowledge, especially Information Science, which, through the adoption and effective use of metadata and available metadata patterns, supports the treatment of reso urces in digital environments. Objective: The objective of this research is to study the PREMIS metadata standard and its relationship with Cloud Services. Methodology: The Systematic Literature Review was the method that enabled the construction of a consolidated theoretical ref erence of the PREMIS metadata patterns relationship for digital pre servation in Cloud Services. Results: As a result, the discussions, actions and initiatives found in the international scientific literature that deal with the use of me tadata patterns in Cloud Service are presented, as well as the cases that address PREMIS, from t he perspective of Cloud Services; in addition, the study of the relationship of the semantic units of the PREMIS Data Dictionary in Cloud Services. Conclusion: It is concluded that, in view of the curr ent technological scenario, characterized by the heterogeneity of information resources, the PREMIS Data Dictionary with its semantic units is of paramount importance for the establishment of digital preservation in Cloud Services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information professional is gaining more and more space in the current information society. Information and communication technologies appear to facilitate the performance of work in the digital environment. With the increasing amount of information, either digitized or born digital, the care of digital objects has become urgent. Digital curation appears as an alternative in the care of digital objects, ensuring that they have a longer life and can be used. It is believed that activities related to digital curation have required constant updates and other competencies for the information professional. Therefore, we intend to know: what are the information professional's practices that contribute to digital curatorship? General Objective: To identify which types of information professionals perform activities related to digital curatorship. Specific objectives: to highlight the literatures that deal with the information professional in digital curatorship; to verify the necessary competences for the information professional to act as digital curator; to specify the similar and different aspects in the typologies of the information professional. Results: Most digital curators are librarian, archivist or museologist professionals, with master's degrees in the areas of librarianship, records management, archivists or in information science. Few specialize or have master's degrees in digital curation or data curation. Some of the activities that the digital curator performs include the following services: creating metadata; accessing, collecting and manipulating content; discarding; maintaining resources; developing policies and managing data plans and procedures for digital content. Conclusion: Digital curation is important to ensure the long life and integrity of the digital object, so organizations adapt to their reality, life cycle models to work with these digital objects. The specialized training for digital curators is directly linked to the areas of Librarianship and Information Science. This research highlights the type of information professional: the librarian, who most performs activities related to digital curation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that the elaboration of a DMP is not a trivial task for the researcher, who, for the most part, does not use this praxis in their research routine, Icict/Fiocruz carried out a study on the perception of researchers regarding the elaboration of a DMP supported by the FioDMP tool, within the scope of phase 2, of the Fiocruz Data Repository pilot project. We tried to identify doubts, facilities and difficulties related to the system interface (usability), the understanding of the content to be filled in each section, the general perception of the tool, as well as the challenges encountered during its filling. As a methodological procedure, a qualitative approach was used, adopting as a data collection instrument the observation of the user's interaction with the system. The result generated some actions necessary to optimize the system and highlighted the difficulty in understanding metadata. The findings led us to an analysis of the metadata field in public DMPs available in 3 tools: DMPTool, DMPOnline and Argos. It was concluded that the metadata field must be explained more effectively in DMP systems, to ensure its proper completion, in addition to the need to adopt an institutional ecosystem that ensures the articulation between information professionals and specialists in ethical and legal issues in supporting researchers, in drawing up their plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The TOI - International Conference on Technology and Information Organization - is an initiative of the "Observatory of the Labor Market in Information and Documentation" research group (OMTID - CNPq) of the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo. The 4th TOI will take place in May 2018, in academic and scientific collaboration with the 15th CONTECSI FEA-USP, bringing together Information Science researchers, students and professionals - Librarianship, Archival Science and Museology, with the goal of promoting reflection and dialogue about relevant topics, as well as contributing to the integration of the academic and the professional environments, strengthening the interest in research, and sharing knowledge about the most innovative practices in this area. The program of this event covers the following fields of knowledge: Information and Knowledge Management; Technology and Information Systems; Digital Libraries and Repositories; Document Digitization, Knowledge Organization, Conservation and the Preservation of Information; Metadata; Digital Curation; Information Ethics; Digital Humanities; Labor Market and Entrepreneurship; Big Data; Data Science; Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyse occurrences of the phenomenon of code-blending in the linguistic pair Libras and Portuguese, based on sociolinguistic assumptions that suggest that speech, besides carrying topographic and diastratographic marks, also reflects situations of interaction and socio-demographic characteristics of speakers. Based on this principle, we present a preliminary description of the phenomenon in situations of spontaneous linguistic productions extracted from publicly accessible videos from Youtube and Facebook. From this preliminary analysis, it can be seen that, from the crossing of linguistic data and metadata obtained online and capable of being systematized, varieties of the phenomenon occur according to the sociolinguistic situations of interaction, which give rise to distinct discursive genres, and to the sociolinguistic profile of the speakers, partly configured by the process of language acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this study is investigating the Local Productive Arrangement (LPA) of Clothing in Espinosa -- Minas Gerais State and its impact on boosting the region's economy. The method took into consideration secondary data about the region and mainly primary data obtained from field research and semi-structured interviews with company managers and representatives of the Government, Consultancies and Institutions directly or indirectly involved in the governance of the Arrangement. The research has a qualitative nature based on the analysis of the information collected. The results point to a rich experience in relationships and cooperation between companies and the main links that participate in the production process. The LPA of Clothing, as it is known, is located in the far north of Minas Gerais State, a semi-arid region far from the major industrial and commercial centers in Brazil, so that, through local initiative, it has developed an unexpected trajectory. It has a notorious impact on the regional economy, creates jobs, distributes income, generates knowledge, forms manpower, and givesstability and dignity to people in the region. However, there are still some weaknesses in collective actions and forms of institutional cooperation that need to be improved with the involvement of all agents that constitute the LPA's governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of people unhappy with the usual practice of religious institutions has increased significantly in Brazil, throughout recent decades. In the Brazilian religious scenario, the Christian churches are those that feel the impact of this phenomenon most strongly. Along with this discontentment, the disaffiliations occur. More and more people abandon traditional religious institutions and experiences and seek, in one way or another, to regularize their religiosity or spirituality. Some of these people may be viewed as without institution, some as without religion. This thesis intends to listen to some of these people and to understand at what extent a non-religious spirituality is forming in the pilgrimage of the current Brazilian society. Due to the relevance of these characters in the Brazilian religious context, the phenomenon of non-religion is the object of study of the present research, and the theme developed is non-religious spirituality. That being said, the purpose of this study is to analyze and interpret the phenomenon of non-religion in Brazil, through a representative sample of the universe, in order to build an essay on non-religious spirituality in contemporary times. To accomplish this goal, the thesis is developed through three methodological procedures. Initially, we analyze quantitative data about the demographic profile of the nonreligious in Brazil. Then, data collected from a field research entitled The Word of the Unreligious are examined and interpreted. Subsequently, the study enters a more theoretical path, which uses authors congruent to the thematic of nonreligious spirituality. Because it encompasses three research techniques, the method chosen for the development of the present thesis is a mixed method approach, notably an explanatory sequential project. The essay culminates with the idea that from the experience of Brazilians who claim to have no religion, a nonreligious spirituality is forming, albeit quite incipiently. However, in order not to be restricted to the result of the analysis and interpretation of field data, the present study concludes with three conceptions of non-religious spirituality, in order to stimulate not the end, but the continuity of reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although there has been great progress in controlling the brucellosis disease, there are still regions where infection persists in domestic animals and consequently transmission to the human population occurs frequently, causing acute and chronic brucellosis. In this context, this study aimed to characterize and detect changes in temporal trends related to brucellosis in Portugal and in the European Union (EU) and to compare the means recorded per 100 thousand residents. This is a retrospective study, based on secondary data about the number of notified and recorded cases of brucellosis in Portugal and the EU between 2007 and 2017 and resident population data. The data were analyzed through the software Joinpoint, version 4.6.0.0, to estimate the regression for each trend. In order to compare the means of the cases notified in Portugal and EU, the software SPSS version 25.0 and the t-Student test for paired samples were used. The results show that, in both regions, there was a decrease in notified cases of brucellosis. The annual percentage variation in the period analyzed for Portugal and the EU were -9.4% and -4.6%, respectively, for a 95% confidence interval. There were statistically significant differences between the notified averages for each 100 thousand residents of notified cases of brucellosis in Portugal and EU (p-value < 0.05). Portugal registers more than four times the cases notified when compared to EU in the analyzed period. The results showed a decrease trend in brucellosis cases both in Portugal and EU in the same period. Results, also, revealed that the downward trend was more marked in Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, it is known that diet is related to sports performance and can improve exercise performance and recovery through well-chosen and individually planned nutritional strategies. This study aims to study the eating and physical activity practices of users of four gyms in northern Portugal. For this, an epidemiological cross-sectional study was conducted based on a sample of 228 individuals. For data collection a survey was conducted with questions about sociodemographic data, the type(s) practiced, the practice of specific dietary patterns and a dietary reminder of the last 24 hours. Anthropometric data were objectively measured. Regarding the type of diet practiced, when asked between the Mediterranean, hyperproteic or other diet, it was found that most gym users did not assume to practice any specific diet, (80.8%). Individuals who assumed a high-protein diet had significantly higher BMI values. It was found that energy and nutritional intake did not differ significantly, considering the type of diet that gym users followed, but in relation to gender, significant differences were found. Those who had been in the gym for a longer time had higher fruit consumption. However, those who had been to the gym for a shorter time (3 months) had lower consumption of meat, fish and eggs. Most respondents had hyperproteic diets, and those who practiced strength modalities had higher protein intake. There were also significant differences in the nutritional and food intake of gym users when the type of diet was taken into account, as those who assumed a high-protein diet consumed significantly more meat, fish and eggs and vegetables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O acesso aos dados de pesquisa permite o desenvolvimento de pesquisas adicionais, fornece informações para subsidiar decisões e contribui para a transparência na ciência. Este estudo analisa a comunicação científica dos conjuntos de dados relacionados à temática biodiversidade, sob a perspectiva do uso dos metadados ao longo do fluxo de informação científica. Para tanto, será realizada a análise comparativa entre os padrões de metadados internacionalmente recomendados e as evidências de uso dos metadados nos registros de conjuntos de dados de pesquisa. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa e descritiva, com estratégia de coleta de dados bibliográfica e documental, considerando como fontes os artigos da literatura científica e os registros de metadados dos conjuntos de dados relativos à biodiversidade extraídos em repositórios de acesso livre. As buscas por evidências de uso dos metadados serão guiadas pelo método chamado recuperação de informação realizada pouco-a-pouco (bit-at-a-time ou berry picking). Para coleta e análise adota-se a revisão sistematizada e a meta-síntese. Como resultado, espera-se delinear o panorama de uso dos metadados no registro dos dados de pesquisa sobre biodiversidade. Além disso, há a expectativa de que seja possível também identificar práticas internalizadas na gestão, comunicação e governança desses dados. Making data accessible allows further research, provides information for decision-making and contributes to transparency in science. This paper presents an ongoing study about the scientific communication of the global biodiversity data sets, analyzed under the perspective of metadata use throughout the scientific information flow. The proposed methodology aims to establish a baseline by identifying the internationally recommended metadata standards and compare it with existent metadata evidences. This study is grounded in a qualitative and descriptive research of metadata evidences that will be guided by the berry picking method. Furthermore, the systematic review and meta-synthetic analysis were defined as methods to collect and analyze metadata evidences extracted from scientific articles and metadata records related to biodiversity research data sets of public repositories. The expected outcome is to outline metadata use in biodiversity data sets in a comparative analysis view to recommended standards. It is also expected to identify practices that have been adopted in the management, communication and governance of biodiversity research data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Europeana is a European project aimed to become the modern “Alexandria Digital Library”, as it targets providing access to thousands of resources of European cultural heritage, contributed by more than fifteen hundred institutions such as museums, libraries, archives and cultural centers. This article aims to explore Europeana digital resources as open learning repositories in order to re-use digital resources to improve learning process in the domain of arts and cultural heritage. To carry out this purpose, we present results of metadata quality based on a study case associated to recommendations and suggestions that provide this type of initiatives in our educational context in order to improve the access of digital resources according to a specific knowledge areas.

El artículo trata de clarificar la naturaleza de la relación entre los estándares RDA (Resource Description and Access) e ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description), para poder entender sus diferencias y sus vinculaciones, a la vez que disipar ciertas malinterpretaciones sobre esta relación. Para ello se analiza la tipología de estándares y ciertos aspectos que pueden incidir en las diferencias como puntos de vista, alcance, origen, política de creación y grupo u organismo de elaboración, que justifica de manera lógica esas diferencias. Estas no han supuesto obstáculo alguno para una correcta vinculación con la ayuda de la tecnología Linked Data. Se da cuenta de los trabajos realizados de mapeos y alineamientos entre los estándares para contribuir correctamente a la Web semántica. Es este el conocimiento fundamental que se requiere al profesional catalogador hoy día, para poder emplearlos con criterio, conocimiento y responsabilidad. = The article attempts to clarify the nature of the relationship between RDA and ISBD standards in order to be able to understand their differences and links, as well as remove some misinterpretations about this relationship. To this end, some aspects that can affect their differences, such as type of standards, points of view, scope, origin, policies of creation and development group or organization in charge that logically justify those differences, are analyzed. They have not presented any obstacle for a right relationship with the help of the Linked Data technology. In the article, account is also given to mappings and alignments work between both standards in order to properly contribute to the Semantic Web. This knowledge is the basic requirement for current catalogers in order to use standards judiciously, with knowledge and responsibility.

Resumo Metadados são considerados elementos fundamentais na Ciência da Informação e suas características, aplicações e tipologias vêm sendo bastante estudados pelos pesquisadores da área, principalmente a partir dos anos 2000. Esta pesquisa busca trazer para a Ciência da Informação e propor o estudo de um novo tipo de metadado, o chamado metadado de negócio. Metadados de negócio são o contexto do negócio, na linguagem dos atores do negócio, por trás dos dados e podem ser encontrados em qualquer processo de trabalho nos diferentes setores das diversas instituições. Considerando a falta de literatura brasileira sobre este tipo de metadado na Ciência da Informação, objetiva-se trazer o conceito, aplicações, exemplos e estudos sobre metadados de negócio, por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica. A pesquisa é de natureza teórica e conceitual, caracterizando-se como pesquisa exploratória. Desse modo, observam-se nos metadados de negócio características bastante pertinentes aos conceitos e princípios da Ciência da Informação. Isso permite concluir que este conceito pode e deve ser inserido na área, principalmente nos estudos relacionados à Arquitetura da Informação, Sistemas de Informação e Recuperação da Informação.

Wikidata is a free, open, multilingual and collaboratively edited knowledge base. It works as a repository of structured and linked data that that can be used by other projects, such as Scholia, to generate scholarly profiles and data visualizations. In this paper we present our contribution to enrich NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE) profile with meaningful metadata, enabling the display of useful information about the scientific production of the School. In an exploratory approach, we realized that Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and NOVA SBE already had scattered information on Wikidata but it needed to be enriched and contextualized. We started with a small group of researchers, extracted data from our Current Research Information System (CRIS) and then imported it to Wikidata. This pilot allowed us to gain experience and skills on Wikidata. As we continue to add more data, we expect to be able to evaluate the impact of open linked data in the dissemination of scholarly information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the expansion of scientific production in digital information environments and the new forms of data availability following the principles of Linked Data, the objective is to discuss possibilities of relationships of datasets and semantic enrichment of metadata in digital repositories and present a model of conversion of records in RDF. It is a theoretical and exploratory research, performing a bibliographic review on digital repositories and Linked Data. In this way, we have demonstrated possibilities of the conversion process, identifying databases, vocabularies and standards that must be adopted so that the generated data is enriched semantically. The work presented a model that reflects the steps that must be taken in the process of making available the metadata of a digital repository in Linked Data. It is concluded that the integration between digital repositories and Semantic Web technologies allows the availability of data in Linked Data, which provides new means for the dissemination and integration of resources on Web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There are currently several metadata patterns which describes information of different themes and areas. Many of these patterns are present in web systems which allow different forms of precisely retrieving than the popular search engines. The current work proposes a metadata model to describe news story in several information vehicles. The resources will be described and retrieved by computational tools which will be developed specifically for this work.

Las directrices RDA (Descripción y Acceso a Recursos) van a promover un gran cambio en la catalogación. De hecho, pueden ser utilizadas por cualquier persona que desee describir y hacer accesible una colección de patrimonio cultural, además de los profesionales tales como bibliotecarios, archivistas, curadores y de otras ramas del conocimiento. Las RDA tienen como objetivo crear metadatos bien estructurados para todo tipo de recursos, reutilizable en cualquier contexto y entorno tecnológico; ofrecen un “conjunto de directrices e instrucciones para crear datos para el descubrimiento de los recursos”. Las Directrices abarcan cuatro acciones -identificar, relacionar (de las tareas del usuario FRBR / FRAD y ICP), representar y descubrir- y uno sustantivo: recursos. RDA permiten el descubrimiento del conocimiento registrado, es decir cualquier recurso que transmite contenido intelectual o artístico por medio de cualquier tipo de soporte y medio de comunicación. RDA es una norma de contenido, no un estándar de visualización, ni un estándar de codificación: da instrucciones para identificar los datos y no se preocupa por la forma de presentación o por la codificación de los datos producidos por las directrices. RDA requiere un enfoque original, una metanoia, un cambio profundo en la manera en que pensamos acerca de la catalogación. Las innovaciones en la RDA son muchas: se promueve la interoperabilidad entre los catálogos y otros métodos de búsqueda, se adopta la terminología y los conceptos de la Web Semántica, constituye un estándar global que puede ser aplicado por las diferentes agencias para crear datos. Se espera que las RDA sean enriquecidas por toda la comunidad mundial de profesionales, en una perspectiva de colaboración consciente, reconocida y global. Las RDA van un paso más allá de la catalogación tradicional para entrar en la era digital definitivamente = RDA (Resource Description and Access) is going to promote a great change in cataloguing. In fact, guidelines – rather than rules – are addressed to anyone wishing to describe and make accessible a cultural heritage collection or tout court a collection: librarians, archivists, curators and professionals in any other branch of knowledge. RDA aims to make possible creation of well-structured metadata for any kind of resources, reusable in any context and technological environment. RDA offers a “set of guidelines and instructions to create data for discovery of resources”. Guidelines stress four actions – to identify, to relate (from FRBR/FRAD user tasks and ICP), to represent and to discover – and a noun: Resource. To identify entities of Group 1 and Group 2 of FRBR (Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item, Person, Family, Corporate Body); to relate entities of Group 1 and Group 2 of FRBR, by means of relationships. To enable users to represent and discover entities of Group 1 and Group 2 by means of their attributes and relationships. These last two actions are the reason of users’ searches, and users are the pinpoint of the process. RDA enables the discovery of recorded knowledge, that is any resources transmitting intellectual or artistic content by means of any kind of carrier and media. RDA is a content standard, not a display standard nor an encoding standard: it gives instructions to identify data and does not care about how to display or encode data produced by guidelines. RDA requires an original approach, a metanoia, a deep change in the way we think about cataloguing. Innovations in RDA are many: it promotes interoperability between catalogs and other search tools, it adopts terminology and concepts of the Semantic Web, it is a global standard, it can be applied by different agencies to create data. RDA is expected to be enriched by the wide community of professional, from the whole world, in a collaborative, well-aware, recognized and global perspective. By RDA, the great tradition of cataloguing goes one step further and enters in the digital age definitively.