Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
Themes of events and objects of scientific research, interdisciplinarity and its variations - multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, etc. – are terms used interchange-ably. However, for sociologists of science, the diferent degrees of interaction and the possibilities of theorerical reciprocity between disciplines define these terms. Muldisciplinarity and pluridisciplinarity occur when distinct disciplinary knowledge is used for one purpose, without theoretical exchange. Each discipline collaborates with its own methodology to solve a problem. When there is theoretical reciprocity between disciplines, interdisciplinarity occurs, which may culminate in transdisciplinarity: the conception of another discipline, with its own theoretical identity, different from those that initially came together with a common objective. The delimitation of these relations is not simple and cannot be trivialized: a discipline cannot be interdisciplinary in itself, for interdisciplinarity presupposes theoretical interchanges between disciplines. For centuries,the work done in archives, libraries and museums was performed indifferently by professionals from various fields who, by interacting, contributed to the constitution of knowledge that gradually outlined the disciplines that constitute the field of information. Today, the specificities of these spaces are observed, as well as the identity of Archival Science, Librarianship and Museology and of the professionals trained in them. This work aims to presente the constitution of the field of information from the historical framework of the practices and thoughts of the disciplines that compose it. It is the result of a doctoral thesis, based on Bourdieu’s notion of scientific field and developed through bibliographic research. The results point to a scientific and professional field that includes disciplines whose object is the genesis, organization, communication, and availability of information. Historically, their trajectories have intersected according to their partnerships, alliances and conflicts Around their disciplinary identity and otherness. Rather than interdisciplinarity being na assumption, the transversality of the field of information promotes theoretical (dis)encounters that enable fruitful relationships between the doings and knowledges of information professionals facing the contemporary challenges of records management, preservation, and promotion of access to documents, information, and knowledge.
