Practices on organization and divulgation of the intelectual production in information science in Brazil

Abstract

This work analyses some theoretical issues about database construction, and it is based on practical achievements that were developed during the constitution of a specific information source, the BRAPCI database. It discusses antinomies or oppositions between the formalized and the practiced, adopting as its prior conjecture the need for both criticism and self-criticism, targeted at practice and reflected on the differentiation between the so called quantitative indicators, assessable through the use of quantities, measures and numbers, and the qualitative ones, related to qualities evaluated by the intermediation of constructs. It recommends the complementarity between both of these aspects, when implementing database evaluation processes.