Memory devices for juridical information: analysis of indexing procedures

Abstract

Information Science is interdisciplinary, and established links with many areas, especially memory, because the emergence of the records of knowledge and the need for organization and access to information resulted in places of memory, which constituted practices for conservation, access and dissemination of information. Thus the organization and representation of knowledge, especially in contexts of information units, has a direct connection with the access, retrieval and ownership information. Moreover, while memory devices, allow the area or the discursive community can be understood and reconstructed, which applied to institutions that deal with the law may have wider effects in the sense of citizenship, promotion of access to information to citizens, among others. The aim of this study was to determine what procedures are adopted for indexing juridical information and how this could be reflected in a policy of indexing. However, as the concept of legal information is very broad, bounded to the spectrum of research on case law, legislation and doctrine. Was investigate three institutions: the Tribunal Regional Eleitoral, Assembleia Legislativa de Pernambuco and Faculdade de Direito do Recife. The research was characterized as exploratory, and performed a literature review of knowledge organization and memory, indexing policies and juridical information. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire, and observation in institutions. After observation and analysis of the responses to the questionnaire, it was possible to list elements that can be reflected in a policy of indexing for juridical information.