Metadata Standard of Theses and Dissertations according to the Entity-Relationship Model

Abstract

With the automation of information systems and with the advent of digital libraries, norms, standards and tech- niques of library studies have been widely discussed, analyzed, reevaluated and reorganized. In this article the results of docto- ral research, in which the Brazilian Metadata Standard for Theses and Dissertations (MTD-BR) was analyzed, is presented.

This standard has been utilized in the digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Project, of the Instituto Brasileiro de Infor- mação em Ciência e Tecnologia, IBICT (Brazilian Institute for Scientific and Technological Information), with the methodolo- gy of data modeling, according to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), which is based on the Entity- Relationship Model. It was concluded that new studies should be carried out applying this methodology to other metadata

standards, even if they are analyzed with other data modeling tools, such as the object-oriented model, and considering its rela- tionship with the guidelines, principles and instruments of library studies.