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An article evaluating the construction of a thesaurus for literary works from the writer João Guimarães Rosa. It explores how to organize specifically through documentary languages the narrative of the book “Grande Sertão: Veredas” through its thematic connections. It presents a proposal for the inclusion of informational data from works developed on the "Rosian" universe by several lines of research from other scientific fields such as psychology, biology, geosciences. The extraction of terms and concepts was done by the detailed reading of the central work, and informational support coming from other publications. So far (page 438 of the work), 989 terms were extracted into 6 previously determined categories. The results were inserted in the TemaTres program, and a mental map containing the highlighted hierarchies was developed. More than a thousand hierarchical relationships were obtained, as some characters occupy more than one category (e.g. Riobaldo was a jagunço and promoted to gang leader). This is the first insight for the development of a thesaurus that include not just literary work but that opens up a range of possibilities to include more documents and publications within the central scope – the book “Grande Sertão:Veredas” from Guimarães Rosa and its complex universe.

An article evaluating the construction of a thesaurus for literary works from the writer João Guimarães Rosa. It explores how to organize specifically through documentary languages the narrative of the book “Grande Sertão: Veredas” through its thematic connections. It presents a proposal for the inclusion of informational data from works developed on the "Rosian" universe by several lines of research from other scientific fields such as psychology, biology, geosciences. The extraction of terms and concepts was done by the detailed reading of the central work, and informational support coming from other publications. So far (page 438 of the work), 989 terms were extracted into 6 previously determined categories. The results were inserted in the TemaTres program, and a mental map containing the highlighted hierarchies was developed. More than a thousand hierarchical relationships were obtained, as some characters occupy more than one category (e.g. Riobaldo was a jagunço and promoted to gang leader). This is the first insight for the development of a thesaurus that include not just literary work but that opens up a range of possibilities to include more documents and publications within the central scope – the book “Grande Sertão:Veredas” from Guimarães Rosa and its complex universe.

It was developed a didactic boardgame based on “Trivial Pursuit” model, named “CataloCards”. Contents from Descriptive Representation discipline (RDI and RDII) were used to elaborate the questions/answers. The aim is to use it as support material, helping students to memorize rules and technical standards from disciplines from Library and Information Science courses. Questions were distributed in 6 categories that associate, as Trivia boardgames, symbols and colour being: Blue (AA) AACR2; pink (DC) - Dublin Core format and metadata; yellow (M21) - MARC21 format; red (FR) - FRBR; green (RDA) – RDA, and orange (HC) - Cataloguing History. Besides there were developed “Challenge Cards” were the players receive a penalty if given answer is wrong. The boardgame is composed by dice, board, question/answer cards, challenge cards, game pins, hourglass. It was tested in classroom and was well accepted by the students mainly because does not involve multimedia resources, not allowing students to use mobile devices for consulting, thus increasing learning process