ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Vocabulary control in information resource storage, treatment and retrieval systems is necessary to obtain consistency between indexing and retrieval to avoid informational dispersion. Digital repositories in universities are currently fundamental in knowledge management and organization generated by scientific, technological, artistic and administrative production, however, it is necessary to verify the availability of controlled vocabulary and how vocabulary control is carried out.
Objective:
With the objective of systematizing a proposal for vocabulary control and the use of controlled vocabularies in university repositories managed by libraries, an assessment model that proposes to systematize methods, procedures, resources and techniques was developed.
Methodology:
For this end, the development of the investigation carried out exploratory research with bibliographic and document research and applied research in the Unesp Institutional Repository.
Results:
The results constituted an Action Plan, discussed and elaborated by the Study Group, composed of six actions and nine studies to assessment and vocabulary control in university repositories about: vocabulary control in indexing by professionals and non-professionals; vocabulary control in retrieval; use of subject metadata from academic papers; keyword matching; analysis of terminological variations at semantic, syntactic and pragmatic levels; analysis of transaction logs for searches by subject.
Conclusions:
It is concluded that the systematization of actions in an assessment model is relevant for university repositories to incorporate the advances offered by vocabulary control in their routines and, mainly, by the contribution of new terms arising from scientific and technological evolution.
KEYWORDS
Vocabulary control; Documentary languages; Institutional Repositories; Evaluation.