Archives: Reflections of Professor Bob Bobutaka published by “La Revista do Arquivo”.
A scientific journal must properly meet the criteria of a periodical publication or media that transmits scientific information to enable the transmission of scientific articles for the advancement of science. It also promotes the scientific marketing of the country, the author, and acts as a tool or mirror for the internalization and assimilation of scientific research. In this regard, Professor Bob Bobutaka emphasizes: ” In a give-and-take meeting, scientists from all over the world should interact through their scientific journals according to the profile of each universal scientific community. “.
Three prominent scholars in the field of Brazilian archives participated in the Portuguese translation of this study. “Revista do Archivo”, including Marcelo Antonio Chaves, Márcio Amêndola de Oliveira and Clarissa MS Schmidt. The latter, an associate professor at the Department of Information Sciences at Fluminense Federal University, summarized the thoughts of Bob Bobutaka in his research with these words: In the archival field, the debates about the terms archival science and archival studies were mainly based on the dichotomy between technique and science, or in some cases, the synonymy of these two concepts. However, a perspective that places them in different positions is advocated by Bob Bobutaka Bateko in his article “Archival studies and archivalology: an epistemological clarification”. Key words include: Epistemology, archival science, archival science »
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Regarding the definition of the technical tasks included in the study, it is noted that ” scientific sociometry “want to be” a methodological base based on the evaluation of scientific knowledge and knowledge in a certain environment and a certain time interval. It refers to authors of scientific publications, topics, research environment, research time, etc. according to which it helps to read the impact of scientific institutions. It is also a means of internationalizing scientific heuristics ». Starting in the early 2010s by Bob Bobutaka, analyzing the impact of science is a mathematical approach that focuses specifically on the geometric cartography of scientific knowledge and the production and consumption of scientific knowledge.
And ” scientometrics was created to measure science against the background of serial publications called scientific journals. “(…) it wasn’t until the 1950s that Derek John de Solla Price really laid the groundwork for the discipline, applying the use of scholarly articles as quantifiers of research activity to theory and practice. “, says Professor Bob Bobutaka. makes sense” Whether scientometric or scientometric, the statistical units of reference are the scientific journal (the unit of measurement of the container) and the scientific article (the unit of measurement of the content). It should be remembered that the theory of bibliometric indexes or the theory of book indexes, among others, forms a model for explaining bibliometric, librarianometric, scientometric, scientific-sociometric activities. “.
Professor Bobutaka continues: “ Archivalology as an epistemologically validated science is in the progressive dynamics of scientific enrichment. From an epistemological point of view, we have already enriched it with the theory of archival needs and the theory of archival inertia… “.
Along the way, he touched quite extensively on the theory of knowledge and the mastery of archives designed to absorb the archives whole and perfectly, while demarcating scientific knowledge and non-scientific knowledge. This confirms that epistemology collects knowledge in general, just as science collects scientific knowledge, which is the nuclear expression of a scientific field characterized by the principle of verifiability.
The professor ends his thoughts with these words: In general, the concept of scientific theories in the archival field, methodological considerations related to it, etc. concerns archivists rather than archivists. “. Already a prolific author of nearly two dozen books, this prominent researcher in writing and memory sciences intends to publish several books this year in 2023.
