Dimensões político-arquivísticas da avaliação de documentos na Administração Pública Federal (2004-2012)

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the political and technical-scientific dimensions of the archival appraisal. The study analyzes the performance of the Permanent Commissions of Archival Appraisal of the Brazilian Federal Executive Branch, between 2004 and 2012. It presents the context in the Information Science and in the Archival Science of the concept of information. It identifies the characteristics of the public information and of the governmental information. It presents the concept of records management and the principles for the archival appraisal. It highlights in the archival theory the intellectual origins of knowledge about appraisal process, from the classic origins to the postmodernism ones. It adopts a conceptual vision on the State as an informational field and on the archival public policy. It presents the legal benchmarks on archives and information access in Brazil. It describes the institutional benchmarks of the Federal Government's archival public policy. It analyzes the performance of the Arquivo Nacional of Brazil in the technical orientation to the agencies of Federal Executive Branch. It presents interviews with presidents of the Permanent Commissions of Archival Appraisal of the agencies of Federal Executive Branch. It verifies the adoption of filing plans and records schedules by the entities that constitute the universe of the research. It exposes and it analyzes the declarations of the public employees interviewed in order of verifying how the appraisal process is developed in the Brazilian Federal Executive Branch.