A construção de diagnósticos arquivísticos: considerações sobre a aplicação da técnica 5W2H na atividade diagnóstica

Abstract

The archival diagnosis is a cornerstone that will guide all other archival activities. We understand that an adequate way to the systematization of the results presented in the archival diagnosis through the methodological tool of 5w2h. This tool consists of a strategy to structure thoughts, ideas, planning and possible actions in an organized and material way through answers to the following words: what, when, why, where, who, how and how much. Therefore, the objective this article is to reflect on the following guiding question: the use of the methodological tool 5w2h can help the archival diagnosis to enhance its characteristics of political action and mediator of information in order to give visibility not only to the archive, as an administrative unit, but also as an archivist? For that, we use the Bracpi database in order to promote a bibliographical review of literature in the area of Information Science that makes it possible to consider the question proposed in this article. And based on literature analysis, we propose an archival diagnosis model that uses the 5w2h technique. It is concluded that there is a real possibility that the use of the model proposed here can lead to improvements in communication between areas, greater prominence of professional archivists and an increase in approvals for their actions.