Vocabulário controlado sobre bairros de Salvador: uma busca pela visibilidade afrocentrada na Biblioteca da Faculdade de Arquitetura da UFBA

Abstract

This paper is the result of an experience report that addresses the need to build a Controlled Vocabulary for the neighborhoods of the City of Salvador, presenting the relevance of terminological adjustments to better meet the needs of researchers at the Library of the Faculdade de Arquitetura of the Federal University of Bahia. In a methodological sense, the text adopts the bibliographical and documental research with a view to the starting problem and the stipulated objectives for the project and for the referred work. It briefly presents the emergence of this need based on the demands reported by the Library's users and based on the absence of certain geographic authorities in the indexing instruments agreed upon in the context of the Institution's libraries. Based on this lack, the creation of geographic authorities for the neighborhoods and locations of the city of Salvador was identified as a priority, considering their ethnic-racial, demographic, cultural and historical particularities, as well as the variations in their names. The project has been carried out at the Library in question, having presented satisfactory results regarding the representation of information from bibliographic materials in the collection. It is concluded that the Controlled Vocabulary of neighborhoods and locations in Salvador, in the context of the analyzed academic library, meets the precepts of representation of ethnic-racial information and helps in the retrieval of information from researchers who focus on the specificities of regions, neighborhoods and other locations in the Capital Salvador.