Metadados de distintivos escoteiros e a perspectiva da memória institucional

The Scout Movement was founded in 1907 in England by Robert Baden-Powell and brought to Brazil in 1910, and today has more than 100,000 members throughout the national territory. Scouting if characterized as a worldwide, educational, voluntary, non-partisan and non-profit movement, whose guideline is a method that proposes activities, with gradual and progressive development, through educational actions with practical applications and stimulated by a badge system. The Scout Badges represent and characterize the Movement and its Method, comprising more than 500 items. In the above context, the objective of this research was to validate metadata for the description of Scout Badges in order to ensure their recovery from the perspective of institutional memory. As a result, it was possible to identify the metadata for its description through the construction, proposition and application of guidelines for bibliographic records for badges, using the management of metadata suggested by the CCO and Ranganathan's PMEST methodology. It is concluded that the documentary representation is an important tool used in the treatment of cultural objects linked to the memory of an institution, and is protected for preservation, recovery and access informational.