Taturrecognografia: uma metodologia científica para avaliação da tatuagem enquanto documento de identificação humana

Abstract

This investigation proposes to apply technical and methodological procedures, based on theoretical and consolidated variables, in order to determine the tattoo as a document to be suitable for information systems. It involves three distinct theoretical universes: document, tattoo and human identification. The fact that the tattoo is an acquired biometric alteration, an inscription on human skin, is attributed the condition of being able to be a biometric element for identifying an individual, based on the proposition and establishment of specific techniques and methods. It is part of a theoretical framework by Information Science (IC) authors who attest to the concept of document beyond paper support and theoretical contributions that will guarantee the reading and understanding of the image on the skin and human identification to establish a syntax that enables effective classification, in addition to facilitating the organization and retrieval of information derived from the study of human identification. The research is classified as applied in nature because it aims to generate new knowledge to be adopted and assumes descriptive, explanatory and exploratory characteristics in relation to the objectives. It adopts the quantitative and qualitative approach, and the method applied is the Grounded Theory. It is interesting to present approaches to the tattoo as a document and include it in the IC's activities, in its theoretical and practical sphere, so that the tattoo can be analyzed, going beyond the concept of just being a body ornament and, even more, possessing a notable scientific bias and socially assured. This perspective guarantees the validity of this study as an original theoretical epistemic formulation and, therefore, the development of a documentary methodology indicated to provide the theory with a pragmatic apparatus for using an information system that chooses the skin as the document's support.