Master's degree
Area of Concentration: Information Management and Knowledge Organization | TE: Special Topics | PPGCI0017: 15h - 1 credit | PPGCI0018: 30h - 2 credits | Other codes: 60h - 4 credits
Mandatory Subjects
PPGCI0002 Historical and Scientific Constitution of Information Science | 4 credits, 60 hours
Summary
Background of Information Science: documentation and documents. The ideas and actions of Paul Otlet and pioneers of the field. Information Science in the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Major milestones of the emergence of the area: courses, scientific societies, events, and journals. Concepts of Information and its evolution over time. The epistemological constitution of Information Science and its interdisciplinarity. Concepts of discipline, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Social and ethical responsibility of Information Science. The Information Society, information and communication technologies (ICT) and the transformations in the field. New issues: open/free access to scientific information and open data or research data in open science.
Teacher responsible: Lena Vania Ribeiro Pinheiro
Last class offered: 04/26/2022 to 08/02/2022
PPGCI0001 Research Methods Applied to the Social Sciences | 4 credits, 60 hours
Summary
Research methodologies applied to social sciences. Research approaches applied to information science. Prevailing methods, techniques, and instruments. Research foundations (theoretical and practical). Workshop for project development and discussion. To contribute to the reflection about the conditions of production and appropriation of scientific knowledge, through problematization, systematization and theoretical elaboration of ongoing projects in the perspective of Information Science and interdisciplinary relations.
Teacher responsible: Cristian Berrío-Zapata
Last class offered: 04/27/2022 to 07/13/2022
Optional Subjects
PPGCI0017 TE: Informational Accessibility and Information Science (OFFERED YEAR - 2020)
Summary
Accessibility in the Information Society. Accessibility, evolution of concepts and laws. Assistive technologies enhancing communication. Accessibility and inclusion policies in Brazil Accessibility in the scope of Information Science. Accessibility in libraries, focusing on e-accessibility libraries. The library and the current demands of access to different user profiles. Accessibility in museums: instruments and institutional policies which enable access to and use of information for different audiences. Accessibility and use of archival information. The new information and communication technologies applied to accessibility.
Teacher responsible: Tania Chalhub
Last class offered: 10/15/2020 to 12/11/2020
PPGCI0019 TE: Archives and Human Rights (OFFERED YEAR - 2022)
Summary
Contextualization, development and consolidation of the relationship between archives and human rights. Context and evolution of human rights in Brazil. Human rights archives: history, concepts, and approaches. The archives of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). Justice of Transition and the National Truth Commission (CNV). The relationship of Brazilian truth commissions with archives. Places of memory in archives, libraries, and museums. Ethical aspects of the information professional in the defense of human rights.
Teacher responsible: Mônica Tenaglia
Last class offered: 04/29/2022 to 06/24/2022
PPGCI0018 TE: Information Competence: theories and reflections (OFFERED YEARS - 2020, 2021)
Summary
Information Competence: genesis and evolution. Theoretical and conceptual approaches. Critical competency in information. Reflections on the Information Competence in learning, in the professional practice, in the exercise of citizenship and in combating misinformation.
Teacher responsible: Renata Lira Furtado
Last class offered: 08/31/2021 to 11/05/2021
PPGCI0018 TE: Scientific Communication: history and developments (OFFERED YEAR - 2021)
Summary
Institutionalization of Science / Beginnings of Scientific Communication / Main Concepts / 2. Scientific Communication Channels/Scientific Journals and the Editorial Process 3. Scientific Communication in Brazil 4. Open Access: Electronic Journals Digital Repositories 5. Scientific Communication and research in Information Science 6. Open Science and research data management 7. Copyright and Creative Commons License.
Teachers responsible: Alegria Benchimol e Tania Chalhub
Last class offered: 04/11/2021 to 03/12/2021
PPGCI0011 TE: Science and Technology Communication (YEARS OFFERED - 2017, 2019, 2020)
Summary
The beginnings of science communication. Channels of communication and information in different contexts. The scientific journals. Distinction between science communication and science dissemination. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) and the transformation process of scientific communication. Scientific Communication in Brazil.
Teacher responsible: Alegria Celia Benchimol
Last class offered: 03/30/2020 to 04/28/2020
PPGCI0018 TE: Scientific Communication and Communication (OFFERED YEAR - 2021)
Summary
Scientific Communication and Information Science. Concepts and channels of communication and information Scientific journals. Scientific Communication in Brazil Distinction between scientific communication and scientific dissemination. Objects/collections: research and scientific communication. Scientific dissemination: concepts of diffusion, dissemination and scientific dissemination. Vulgarization of science, Popularization of science, Public understanding of science, Public engagement in science. Scientific dissemination in Brazil.
Teachers responsible: Alegria Celia Benchimol and Luisa Marisa Gomes de Matos Rocha
Last class offered: 10/05/2021 to 05/21/2021
PPGCI0010 TE: Advanced Studies in Archivology (YEARS OFFERED - 2018, 2019)
Summary
Analysis on the principles, methods and techniques of contemporary Archivology. Study of the nature and function of Archives and the archival document. Study of users: need and uses of information in archives. Professional and technical-scientific aspects of Archivology. Epistemological construction of the area. Interdisciplinary relations. Management of documents and archival institutions. Legislation and archival public policies.
Teacher responsible: Roberto Lopes dos Santos Júnior
Last class offered: 21/08/2019 to 27/11/2019
PPGCI0018 TE: Information and knowledge management in organizations and services (OFFERED YEAR - 2020)
Summary
General concepts: Information and Knowledge Management. Value, Management and Services. Service Management and Operations. Knowledge Management Processes. Tools and Practices of Knowledge Management in organizations and services.
Teacher responsible: Danielly Oliveira Inomata
Last class offered: 11/16/2020 to 11/30/2020
PPGCI0018 TE: Knowledge Management (OFFERED YEAR - 2019)
Summary
Conceptual overview of knowledge management, including knowledge creation and organizational learning. Methods and techniques applied to knowledge management. Maturity models applied to knowledge management.
Teacher responsible: Marta Lígia Pomim Valentim
Last class offered: 11/25/2019 to 11/29/2019
PPGCI0018 TE: Strategic Information and Knowledge Management (OFFERED YEAR - 2021)
Summary
Strategic management of information and knowledge and its application in the analysis, diagnosis and intervention in information systems and flows in organizational environments.
Teachers responsible: Thiago Poleto, Natália Nascimento, Aline Santos, Patrícia Rios and Cristian Zapata
Last class offered: 06/09/2021 to 13/12/2021
PPGCI0019 TE: History of Computer Science and Information and Communication Technologies (1945-2000) (OFFERED YEAR - 2022)
Summary
Historical analysis on the evolution of computing and Information and Communication technologies and their impact on contemporary society. Computer development in the United States, Western Europe, Soviet Union, and Brazil. Evolution and expansion of hardware, software and electronic/digital equipment. Consolidation of the Internet, World Wide Web and mobile technology. Discussion of the impact of computing on the environment and on economic, political and social relations. Corporate consolidation of technologies. Ethical aspects of computing. Human-computer interaction, Big Data, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. Perspectives of Contemporary Technology.
Teacher responsible: Roberto Lopes dos Santos Júnior
Last class offered: 04/08/2022 to 10/11/2022
PPGCI0018 TE: Information, Knowledge and Sustainability (OFFERED YEAR - 2019)
Summary
The origins of the socio-environmental crisis in the historical, ethical and cultural perspective of the man-nature relationship and the frameworks of ecology The notions of economic growth/development and natural limits. Causes and impacts of the Anthropocene. Science and technology in times of the Anthropocene. The oxymoron sustainable development and the pitfalls of the green economy. Information, misinformation and lobbies on socioenvironmental issues. Information and low carbon society. Society of distrust and certifications (fair trade, organic and geographic origin). Consumerism/productivism and its ecological implications. Equity and justice in access to nature's resources. The challenges and impasses of human development and the new forms of democratic mobilization and representation. Thinking Brazil from the point of view of Global South and Global North relations, implying a shift in the way of formulating and structuring issues to be considered outside the Eurocentric episteme and its rationality. Environmental policies and international governance (Paris Agreement 2015 - Sustainable Development Goals New York 2015 - International Conference on Financing for Sustainable Development). Product life cycle, circular economy. Innovation, environmental sustainability, eco-innovations.
Teacher responsible: Liz-Rejane Issberner
Last class offered: 25/11/2019 to 29/11/2019
PPGCI0009 TE: Information, Society and Citizenship (OFFERED YEAR - 2017)
Summary
Information competence, reading and social inclusion. Information systems for the qualified exercise of citizenship. The social role of public and community libraries. Information and transparency in public administration. Information and the quality of the educational process. Public policies for reading and access to information in the context of cultural policies. Access and use of information by members of social organizations.
Teacher responsible: Hamilton Vieira de Oliveira
Last class offered: 10/08/2017 to 07/12/2017
PPGCI0019 TE: Environmental Information and Sustainability (OFFERED YEARS - 2020, 2021, 2022)
Summary
The origins of the socio-environmental crisis in the historical, ethical and cultural perspective of the man-nature relationship and the frameworks of ecology The notions of economic growth/development and natural limits. Causes and impacts of the Anthropocene. Science and technology in times of the Anthropocene. The oxymoron sustainable development and the pitfalls of the green economy. Information, misinformation and lobbies on socioenvironmental issues. Information and low carbon society. Society of distrust and certifications (fair trade, organic and geographic origin). Consumerism/productivism and its ecological implications. Equity and justice in access to nature's resources. The challenges and impasses of human development and the new forms of democratic mobilization and representation. Thinking Brazil from the point of view of Global South and Global North relations, implying a shift in the way of formulating and structuring issues to be considered outside the Eurocentric episteme and its rationality. Environmental policies and international governance (Paris Agreement 2015 - Sustainable Development Goals New York 2015 - International Conference on Financing for Sustainable Development). Product life cycle, circular economy. Innovation, environmental sustainability, eco-innovations.
Teacher responsible: Liz-Rejane Issberner
Last class offered: 04/18/2022 to 07/25/2022
PPGCI0019 TE: Information and environmental sustainability in contemporary society (OFFERED YEAR - 2021)
Summary
Information and sustainability: concepts, definitions and relationships. Dimensions of sustainability: environmental, social, cultural and economic. Sustainable information flows in organizations and society. Management and sustainability as strategic pillars in organizations. Challenges and perspectives of informational sustainability in Brazil.
Teacher responsible: Hamilton Vieira de Oliveira
Last class offered: 12/08/2021 to 24/11/2021
PPGCI0018 TE: Human-computer interaction: contemporary trends (OFFERED YEAR - 2021)
Summary
Introduction to human-computer interaction. Theoretical approaches in human-computer interaction. Use of human-computer interaction in the technological context. Models of human-computer interaction. Harnessing human-computer interaction in information and communication technologies. Integration of human-computer interaction in contemporary society. Information Science and human-computer interaction: points of intersection and interdisciplinary links.
Teacher responsible: Roberto Lopes dos Santos Júnior
Last class offered: 04/08/2021 to 15/09/2021
PPGCI0008 TE: Language and Discourse in the Face of Knowledge Organization (OFFERED YEAR - 2017)
Summary
Linguistics is an area of knowledge that has deep relations with information science and knowledge organization especially with regard to the thematic treatment of information and in the activities of representation of scientific and organic information. However, beyond methodological approaches, linguistics is key to understanding the theoretical phenomena of Information Science. In this sense, this course aims to support the study and understanding of the main theoreticians of linguistics, such as Saussure, Chomsky, Bakhtin, and from this support, to enable the application of linguistic theories in Information Science and in the organization of knowledge, especially regarding the relations between language and discourse. Finally, based on the study of the elements of Knowledge Organization and Representation, it seeks to highlight the linguistic and terminological elements present in the instruments of organization and representation of knowledge.
Teacher responsible: Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros
Last class offered: 06/19/2017 to 06/24/2017
PPGCI0019 TE: Information Mediation (OFFERED YEAR - 2022)
Summary
History, development, constitution and consolidation of Information Mediation in Information Science. Implicit and explicit mediation of information. Dimensions of Information Mediation: dialogical, formative, aesthetic, ethical, and political. Oral mediation of information. Relationship of the subject with information in different manifestations and appropriation of information. Mediation of information in the ambience of archives, libraries, museums and other informational equipments.
Teacher responsible: João Arlindo dos Santos Neto
Last class offered: 12/04/2022 to 14/06/2022
PPGCI0007 TE: Mediation in Multimedia Environments (OFFERED YEARS - 2018, 2019)
Summary
The information professional and mediation from books to networks. Searching, selecting, understanding, and appropriating information in a multimedia environment. Media and hypermedia readers. Social reading and reading incentive. Digital natives, behavior and informational competence. Mediation in the production and dissemination of digital information. Information and Communication Technologies and disintermediation.
Teacher responsible: Cassia Cordeiro Furtado
Last class offered: 05/20/2019 to 05/27/2019
PPGCI0018 TE: Indexing Evaluation Methodologies (YEAR OFFERED - 2022)
Summary
Indexing as a documentary operation of information representation in information systems. Indexing process: from the identification, selection and representation of concepts. Subject and thematic analysis: influence of subject analysis concepts. The role of indexing in information retrieval. Indexing evaluation methods. Indexing policy in information units and systems. Automatic indexing.
Teachers responsible: Franciele Marques Redigolo, Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita and Isidoro Gil Leiva.
Last offered class: 27/06/2022 to 05/08/2022
PPGCI0020 TE: Applied Metrics in Information Production and Organization (YEAR OFFERED - 2019)
Summary
The purpose of this course is to present resources and methodological procedures to evaluate the production of information in various areas of knowledge, in order to visualize the behavior of science, using qualitative and quantitative analysis, by means of metric indicators and statistical and computational procedures.
Teachers responsible: Ely Francina Tannuri de Oliveira and Maria Cláudia Cabrini Gracio.
Last offered class: 21/03/2019 to 06/06/2019
PPGCI0006 TE: Knowledge Organization: representation tools (OFFERED YEAR - 2018)
Summary
Knowledge organization and representation. Documentary processes: document analysis and document synthesis. Documentary languages: instruments of representation. Documentary products.
Teacher responsible: Franciele Marques Redigolo
Last class offered: 04/23/2018 to 04/30/2018
PPGCI0018 TE: Organization and representation of information: interfaces between linguistics and the description of the archival document (YEARS OFFERED - 2020, 2021, 2022)
Summary
Based on the interface relations between Linguistics and Knowledge Organization, the course starts with a historical overview of the emergence of linguistic studies in order to understand the emergence of Modern Linguistics. Next, some of the main theorists (Saussure, Benveniste, Chomsky) are detailed in order to have a panorama of the development of Linguistics in the last hundred years. Finally, based on the studies of the elements of Knowledge Organization and Information Representation, we will try to present aspects and perspectives on the method of Archive Document Description based on the methods of Textual Linguistics, whose purpose is to help in the comprehension of the text and its structures containing the meanings of sociocultural contexts and sociocommunicative processes, because, after all, every text has its context.
Teachers responsible: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes and Gilberto Gomes Cândido
Last class offered: 08/23/2022 to 10/04/2022
PPGCI0005 TE: Information Organization and Representation: the interfaces between linguistics and document language (OFFERED YEAR - 2018)
Summary
Based on the interface relations between Linguistics and Documentary Language, the course starts with a historical overview of the emergence of linguistic studies to understand the emergence of Modern Linguistics. Next, some of the main theorists (Saussure, Benveniste, Chomsky) are detailed in order to have a panorama of the development of Linguistics in the last one hundred years. Finally, based on the studies of the elements of Knowledge Organization and Representation, the linguistic elements present in ontologies, thesaurus, documentary language, as well as in representation systems, will be highlighted, in order to finish with a reflection on the studies of Documentary Linguistics and its contribution to the Organization and Representation of Knowledge.
Teachers responsible: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes and Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros
Last class offered: 20/08/2018 to 27/08/2018
PPGCI0018 TE: Organization and Representation of Information for the Brazilian Amazon (OFFERED YEAR - 2020)
Summary
Organization and representation of knowledge. Documentary processes: Documentary analysis and Documentary synthesis. Documentary languages: representation instruments Documentary products.
Teacher responsible: Franciele Marques Redigolo
Last class offered: 17/09/2020 to 01/10/2020
PPGCI0018 TE: Environmental Information Systems as Tools for Decision Making (OFFERED YEARS - 2021, 2022)
Summary
Environmental information as a strategic resource: quality, access and transparency. Information systems: concepts, basic components, planning. Environmental information systems as tools to support decision making. Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Importance, fundamentals, characteristics, structures, GIS architectures. Acquisition and manipulation of spatial data. Applications of GIS in environmental decision-making processes.
Teacher responsible: Marise Teles Condurú
Last class offered: 04/10/2022 to 28/10/2022
PPGCI0019 TE: Critical perspectives of ICT in Information Science (OFFERED YEAR - 2020)
Summary
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are one of the pillars of the Information Society, and thus part of the discursive and factual configuration associated with phenomena such as globalization, networked economy and cyberculture. Information Science is interested in these socio-technical issues, as they shape the informational regime, and thus contribute to define political, economic and cultural power relations. This course is an introduction, from a critical perspective, to the various scenarios and problems generated in the dialectics between informational technology and the core of social being, and how they reconfigure their relations.
Teacher responsible: Cristian Berrío-Zapata
Last class offered: 12/08/2020 to 03/11/2020
PPGCI0004 TE: Networks and Information Systems (YEARS OFFERED - 2017, 2019)
Summary
Information. System. General Systems Theory (GST). Networks and Information Systems. Concepts and basic components. Stages of networks and systems planning: diagnosis and studies of information needs and demands. Evaluation of information retrieval systems: attributes of information quality. Institutional repositories, digital libraries and virtual libraries.
Teacher responsible: Marise Teles Condurú
Last class offered: 09/09/2019 to 21/10/2019
PPGCI0018 TE: Online Social Networking Services: fundamentals (OFFERED YEAR - 2021)
Summary
Within the scope of Knowledge Organization, this curricular component develops the students' first contact with a theoretical perspective about concepts related to the way of organizing the structures of collection, storage and retrieval of personal data in Online Social Networking Services. At first, the historical perspective of networks and social networks is presented. Then, a process of competence development in the students about the concepts that underlie the main characteristics of Online Social Networking Services is initiated. The theoretical framework is based on a set of specialized and interdisciplinary bibliographies, based on scientific communications and literature that present the results of research in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, and Communication.
Teacher responsible: Fernando de Assis Rodrigues
Last class offered: 04/11/2021 to 02/12/2021
PPGCI0019 TE: Knowledge Organization Systems Applied to Archives, Libraries and Museums (OFFERED YEAR - 2019)
Summary
Knowledge representation and organization systems (KOS) represent a theoretical and methodological advance for Information Science. The representation and organization of knowledge is an area that can contribute and much to the construction of methodologies for the organization of archives, libraries and museums. Thus, knowledge organization contributes especially with regard to the thematic treatment of information and in information representation activities. In this sense, this course aims to support the study and understanding of recent texts about the themes related to representation, organization, access, classification, description, that is, the activities related to the creation of representation systems. It seeks to foster these discussions and deepen the knowledge related to these areas. It begins with an initial reflection on the origins and procedures, moving on to the different aspects of the area today.
Teacher responsible: Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros
Last class offered: 09/09/2019 to 09/16/2019
PPGCI0003 TE: Information and Communication Technologies (OFFERED YEAR - 2018)
Summary
Information and Communication Technologies in the Information Science approach. Organization, processing and transfer of information. Digital communication networks, digital information services their products. Electronic communication channels, scientific communication in print and electronic journals. Social interaction networks and information networks. Main models and mechanisms used for description, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information in digital libraries, databases and the semantic web. Application of information technologies in the construction of electronic catalogs of digital libraries and institutional repositories. Open Archives and interoperability between information systems.
Teacher responsible: Cristian Berrío-Zapata
Last class offered: 26/11/2019 to 07/12/2018