标题：Do princípio monográfico à unidade documentária: exploração dos fundamentos da Catalogação | From the monographic principle to the documentary unit: an exploration of the bases of Cataloguing
其他标题：From the monographic principle to the documentary unit: an exploration of the bases of
Cataloguing
出版社：Laboratório Interdisciplinar em Inofrmação e Conhecimento (LIINC)
其他摘要：This article deals with the notion of documentary unit – a minimum informational unit,
which is considered to be of interest of a group of users, liable to representation for the
constitution of registration of a database – in order to explore the grounds of Cataloguing. Two
conceptions have been taken into account: the concept of work proposed by Panizzi as part of the principles for the production of library catalogs, which was later resumed in the Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model; and the concept of subject as a way to
distinguish the intellectual unit (from the physical unit), developed by Documentation and
applied in systems of scientific information. It starts from the assumption that these conceptions
frame themselves as conceptual-historical approaches to the notion of documentary unit,
therefore making it belong to its problematization. As methodology, we have carried out
conceptual-historical approaches of the two conceptions mentioned above, and an analyses about
their present contribution. First, this article contextualizes Cataloguing, dealing with its aims and
with the existing terminology, bearing in mind the processes and tools of production and
management of database. Second, it presents some of the principles of Cataloging consolidated
by Panizzi in the middle of 19th century, and the monographic principle proposed by Otlet for
documentation based on those principles. Then, it discusses those principles and their
applications along the 20th century. The article observes that the scenery portraited by these two
conceptions, respectively under the predominance of the community of libraries, and the services
and nets of scientific information, has taken new contours during the last two decades. It also
shows that the concepts of work and subject are not self-exclusive aspects of activities of
production and database management, but are general principles for the identification of a
documentary unit from which the information registration is constructed.
