Mediation of information in the field of Archival Science

ABSTRACT

The studies in the ambit of mediation of information are frequently related to Library Science and rarely related to the field of Archival Science. The objective of this article is to search how the perspective of the mediation of information in Archival Science is working from the scientific production in Information Science. In the beginning, the methodology presents a literature review about the thematic and applies a bibliographic research at the journals from the Communication and Information area with Qualis between A1 and B, from its published numbers until 2017 and proceedings from the eighteen editions of Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Ciência da Informação (1994-2017). In this way, it was localizing 11 texts, which six are Works from the Encontro and five articles from journals. The analyses presents the tendency of discussion that are in the recovery texts, the six stablished categories, the most productive and quoted authors, the existing citation network, the used keywords and the methodological procedures used by the texts. It concludes that, for the most part, the discourse that transpires in the analyzed texts is closer to the conception of diffusion/dissemination than to mediation, since it is the one that evidences the archivist as a subject that actively interferes in the construction of users’ and recognizes their interests as the focus of work.

Keywords
Archival Science; Mediation; Mediation of information; Mediation in archives