Atribuição de palavras-chave na prática do autoarquivamento: estudo das diretrizes de repositórios de dados de pesquisa ibero-americanos

Abstract

Research data repositories emerge as digital informational environments committed to the storage, management, access, and preservation of records from scientific research, increasingly stimulated by the development of Open Science. Despite the broad discussion involving research data, one wonders how the available guidelines support the author-indexer in filling in the subject metadata during the self-archiving process in research data repositories? Given this, the general objective of the research is to analyze the recommendations for the attribution of keywords by the author-indexer in guidelines of research data repositories of countries belonging to Ibero America that adopt self-archiving to contribute to the development of theoretical and operational studies dedicated to the subject metadata. Therefore, an exploratory and descriptive study with a qualitative approach is developed that combines bibliographic and documentary research. The latter is based on identifying and selecting repositories of Iberoamerican research data that adopt self-archiving, obtained from the Re3data tool. Twenty-six research data repositories were identified, whose guidelines and respective digital environments were analyzed using six indicators to construct analytical and comparative considerations. The results point to the lack of instructions for the attribution of keywords, even when the research data repositories have formalized guidelines, in addition to the lack of mention of the subject metadata and keywords, as well as clear instructions for the representation of the contents of the research data by the author-researcher. Most research data repositories recommend the use of documentary languages and validate the terms used by the authors-researchers. In conclusion, there is a worrying scenario regarding the attribution of keywords in self-archiving in Iberoamerican research data repositories, and complementary studies are opportune to propose guidelines regarding the subject metadata in these information systems.