As contribuições do Repositório Digital Tatu da Unipampa para pesquisa e pesquisadores em história da educação

Abstract

This research was developed within the Postgraduate Teaching Program at Federal University of Pampa (Unipampa) and intends to carry out a study about the “Digital Repository of History of Education at Unipampa - Campus Bagé” - Tatu Digital Repository (TDR), a system of information recovery project, inserted within innovative technological proposals, that aim at joining efforts along with the expansion initiatives and popularization of resources intended to promote and substantiate researches on the field of History of Education (HE), systematizing and cataloguing works with the purpose to simplify the rescue and consultation to historical sources, taking into account the trihedron, document-history-memory. The importance of this investigation presents itself on the need of an elaborate study regarding the usability of the RDT interface, its benefits to the preservation of collections, sources and pedagogical printed materials, as well as the contributions to the scientific community on the HE field, theme yet under explored and that has presented itself as very promising. The general goal of this research is to develop a study of Tatu Digital Repository contributions and verify if this is an effective tool to preservation and sharing of historical collections to History of Education research and its researchers. The data collected derives from the perception and knowledge of 25 individuals, a group composed by specialists with doctoral and postdoctoral degrees from all regions within the national territory, all linked to the HE field, and with experience and consultation practice with repositories and digital libraries. Actions usually developed by researchers during the process of collecting data. The subjects were framed on three specific profiles, aiming at diverse views. These requirements were crucial to aresearch that had the aspiration not to restrict itself to only one view, but desired to explore a variety of perspectives about Tatu Digital Repository contributions. Concerning the approach, this research characterizes as basic and qualitative quantitative. From the objectives point of view, this is an exploratory research, circumscribed in a case study of Tatu Digital Repository. Efforts were made in looking for theoretical references to comprehend the meaning of memory and its importance to society evolution, the types of support to retain, preserve and perpetuate knowledge, equally as how its evolution evolved from history to nowadays on cloud computing, reflecting about the need of preservation and conservation of collections, as well as access, dissemination and democratization of information possibilities offered by the repositories and digital libraries on contemporary times. Along the discussions and data analysis, it was possible not only to verify important points of the participants perceptions regarding the RDT contributions to the research and researchers, but also, to validate its contributions to the History of Education field, on the regard of scanning the collections in a recovery of information through the internet environment, using a platform that speeds up the consultation to the specimens and promotes the development of studies, allowing remote researches, making the access to the collection simpler and ensuring the access to information from the past by the societies of the present and the future. Therefore, Tatu Digital Repository contributes to the preservation of documental sources and orchestrates the future of History of Education.