Brazilian commemorative stamps: a proposal to Knowledge representation

Abstract It considers that the technical standardization for documentary classification and indexing interferes in the quality of the thematic representation service. It develops, as main objective, criteria and a model to thematically represent the Brazilian commemorative postage stamps. It justifies the study by indicating better effectiveness of access to the set of information contained in the postage stamp. It was characterized as an exploratory, bibliographical and documentary research. He has used scientific literature in the areas of Library Science, Information Science and Philately. He identified and recovered this literature through the Reference Database of Periodical Articles in Information Science (BRAPCI), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and books produced by philatelists. He also made use of the blog of the Correios do Brasil, the respective Issuances of the Brazilian Postal Stamps of 2017 and the Brazilian Stamp Catalog of 2015. The results of the survey indicate that the classification criteria and the indexing model comply its technical role effectively for the representation of the Brazilian commemorative postage stamp. It also concludes that future studies can test the criteria and the model in other genres of postage stamps.