Abstract

This article presents the results of a documentary research regarding the current state of Organization and Representation of Musical Information (ORMI) in Portugal. Many authors describe the national scene of ORMI as very shortcoming, due to the usual difficulties: time vs. detail in the description and lack of knowledge of musical language by the technicians Information professionals.
 A survey of the monographs and articles as of 2011 that make a critical revision to the works of ORMI of several institutions was made, aiming to: 1) perceive their current state and 2) understand its strengths and weaknesses. We identified in these studies the analytic categories to create afterwards a classification structure by disciplinary areas, which shows semantic, structural and quality heterogeneity. The majority of Finding Aids are being produced by musicology projects with structures that respond to their information representation needs.

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  • This article presents a literature review aimed at consolidating the knowledge on the state of the art about Organization and the Representation of Musical Information (ORMI) in Portugal, considering the different typologies of collections

  • The majority of Finding Aids are being produced by musicology projects with structures that respond to their information representation needs

  • The first is a paper published in a journal, made by José Abreu and Paulo Estudante, researchers at the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies (CECH) of the University of Coimbra

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This article presents a literature review aimed at consolidating the knowledge on the state of the art about Organization and the Representation of Musical Information (ORMI) in Portugal, considering the different typologies of collections. Upcoming ORMI projects may use this knowledge to decide more clearly which approach to take. In Portugal there are not many studies about the production of musical information organization and representation by Portuguese authors. There is a Portuguese line of studies that reviews the state of ORMI with two relevant contributions that date from 2005 and 2011. This article will focus on documents that approach the ORMI after this later date. The year 2005 witnessed the presentation of the doctoral thesis of the musicologist João Pedro d’Alvarenga who, despite not studying ORMI, opens his musicological PhD thesis with the following statement:

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