Information as a subject in law and in information science: a comparative study based on the Brazilian reality

Authors

  • João Carlos Gardini Santos Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - UNESP
  • José Augusto Chaves Guimarães Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho em Marília-SP
  • Juan Carlos Fernández Molina Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v24i1.4422

Keywords:

Access to information act, Information, Legal information, Content analysis, Information organization

Abstract

This paper seeks to delineate the extent to which the concept of information is presented in the areas of Law and Information Science in Brazil, seeking to identify descriptive features in their convergent and complementary aspects. For this, a literature review on the subject followed by the application of the content analysis methodology (Bardin, 2009) was carried out based on the categories processes, objectives, elements, features and rights arising from the information. The results reveal a convergence between the Law and the Information Science in aspects related to the act of informing or informing someone, the transmission of knowledge as the objective of the information and the need for a support to give materiality to the information. In the case of Information Science, there is a greater emphasis on the informational processes of production, organization and use of information and its conceptual dimensions (as knowledge, as a process and as a thing). In the case of Law, the emphasis is on the effects or guarantees arising from access to information and the legal principles inherent in the right of information (for example, non-disclosure, publicity, universality etc.). It can be concluded that the increasingly technical use of the term in Law requires the theoretical reference of Information Science, so that its conceptual dimension can be delimited more specifically, with a view to the sedimentation of its terminology.

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Author Biographies

João Carlos Gardini Santos, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - UNESP

Advogado e aluno de Bibliotecenomia da UNESP-Marília.

José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho em Marília-SP

Professor Titular do Departamento de Ciência da Informação da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho em Marília-SP.

Juan Carlos Fernández Molina, Universidad de Granada

Catedrático del Departamento de Información y Comunicación de la Universidad de Granada. Es Doctor en Documentación, Licenciado en Derecho y Diplomado en Biblioteconomía y Documentación.

Published

2017-09-14

How to Cite

Santos, J. C. G., Guimarães, J. A. C., & Molina, J. C. F. (2017). Information as a subject in law and in information science: a comparative study based on the Brazilian reality. Scire: Knowledge Representation and Organization (ISSNe 2340-7042; ISSN 1135-3716), 24(1), 45–54. https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v24i1.4422

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