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O presente estudo, de natureza qualitativa e desenvolvido sob a forma de ensaio, parte dos conceitos de arquivo pessoal e de arquivo científico para procurar uma análise panorâmica do conhecimento atual acerca dos arquivos pessoais de cientistas, designadamente problemáticas, perspetivas, abordagens, formas de valorização e tendências de investigação. Procura uma perspetiva internacional, recorrendo a exemplos de projetos e estudos de distintos países, para traçar um quadro dos arquivos pessoais de cientistas na atualidade. Como resultados, destaca-se uma tensão entre os arquivos privados e os arquivos públicos, que leva os investigadores a considerar o que produzem fruto da sua pesquisa, independentemente da natureza da investigação e de o fazerem no contexto de uma entidade pública ou privada, como documentos privados. As tendências de investigação recaem sobre a organização e representação da informação, a partir da identificação arquivística, acrescentando-se estudos sobre a preservação e a valorização económica, cultural e social dos arquivos pessoais. Também estudos sobre arquivos de cientistas no âmbito da organização do conhecimento com base na correspondência de investigadores, a possibilidade da organização do arquivo pessoal como construção autobiográfica e outras questões metodológicas para a sua organização e representação, designadamente a partir do método biográfico (científico) e da investigação documental, para uma proposta de quadro de classificação funcional ou facetada. Em conclusão, apesar do reconhecimento e da valorização dos arquivos pessoais de cientistas adquirido a partir da década de 1980, este ainda é um tema que colhe um reduzido interesse por parte de arquivistas e cientistas.
This qualitative study, conducted in the form of an essay, takes the concepts of personal archives and scientific archives as its starting point to provide a panoramic analysis of current knowledge about the personal archives of scientists, including problems, perspectives, approaches, means of valorization and research trends. It seeks an international perspective, using examples of projects and studies from different countries, to draw up a picture of scientists’ personal archives today. As a result, it can highlight a tension between private archives and public archives, which leads researchers to consider what they produce as a result of their research, regardless of the nature of the research and whether they do it in the context of a public or private organization, as private documents. As for the research trends, they mainly concern the organization and representation of information, based on the method of archival identification, but there are also fewer studies on the preservation and economic, cultural and social valorization of personal archives. There are also studies on scientists’ archives within the scope of knowledge organization based on researchers’ correspondence, the possibility of organizing personal archives as an autobiographical construction and other methodological issues for their organization and representation, specifically based on the (scientific) biographical method and documentary research, for a proposal for a functional or faceted classification framework. In conclusion, even though the personal archives of scientists have been recognized and valued since the 1980s, this is still a subject that receives little interest from archivists and scientists.
This qualitative study, conducted in the form of an essay, takes the concepts of personal archives and scientific archives as its starting point to provide a panoramic analysis of current knowledge about the personal archives of scientists, including problems, perspectives, approaches, means of valorization and research trends. It seeks an international perspective, using examples of projects and studies from different countries, to draw up a picture of scientists’ personal archives today. As a result, it can highlight a tension between private archives and public archives, which leads researchers to consider what they produce as a result of their research, regardless of the nature of the research and whether they do it in the context of a public or private organization, as private documents. As for the research trends, they mainly concern the organization and representation of information, based on the method of archival identification, but there are also fewer studies on the preservation and economic, cultural and social valorization of personal archives. There are also studies on scientists’ archives within the scope of knowledge organization based on researchers’ correspondence, the possibility of organizing personal archives as an autobiographical construction and other methodological issues for their organization and representation, specifically based on the (scientific) biographical method and documentary research, for a proposal for a functional or faceted classification framework. In conclusion, even though the personal archives of scientists have been recognized and valued since the 1980s, this is still a subject that receives little interest from archivists and scientists.
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Archival Science Personal archives Scientists Arquivística Arquivos pessoais Cientistas
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Silva, C M D C G D 2025, Os arquivos pessoais de cientistas. in B Panisset, E P Frade & R S Borges (eds), Preservação digital nos acervos de C &T : a memória científica em tempos híbridos. Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins , Rio de Janeiro, pp. 35-65. < https://www.gov.br/mast/pt-br/imagens/publicacoes/2025/livro-preservacao-digital-nos-acervos-de-ct.pdf >
Editora
Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins