Analysis focuses on metadata in the light of the standard MTD-BR

Abstract

The difficulty of access and retrieval of information, caused by increasing volume of information available without a structured representation, is one of the consequences of increasingly frequent use of the world wide web (www). As part of this reality, digital libraries seek to ensure interoperability through the physical description and content of its items, adopting specific standards for metadata. In this context, this article describes the research developed in the Master of Information Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, which analyzed the contents of the metadata of the dissertations of the University of Santa Catarina - UDESC, made available to the Library Digital Theses and Dissertations-BDTD in order to verify that they are being informed in accordance with standard MTD-BR and thus contribute to the location and recovery of dissertations that institution. As the methodological procedures, the approach of the research was exploratory and was the metadata analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The qualitative approach was based on recommendations of the standard MTD-BR for the content of metadata elements and their attributes and quantitative approach enabled the comparison of the amount of metadata misinformed and incorrectly. The results enabled us to make suggestions to improve the content of the metadata for informed UDESC for BDTD and concluded that the digital library of UDESC, although a good quality for the completion of the metadata, could improve this procedure in favor of interoperability and information retrieval.