Authors:
Karla Donato Fook
1
;
Daniela Leal Musa
2
;
Nandamudi Vijaykumar
3
;
2
;
Rodrigo M. Mariano
3
;
Gabriel dos Reis Morais
4
;
Raphael Augusto O. Silva
5
;
Gabriel dos Reis Sansigolo
3
;
Luciana Rebelo
6
;
Luís Antônio Coelho Ferla
7
;
Cintia Almeida
7
;
Luanna Nascimento
7
;
Vitória Martins Fontes da Silva
3
;
Monaliza Caetano dos Santos
7
;
Aracele Torres
7
;
Ângela Pereira
7
;
Fernando Atique
7
;
Jeffrey Lesser
8
;
Thomas D. Rogers
8
;
Andrew G. Britt
9
;
Rafael Laguardia
7
;
Ana Maria Alves Barbour
7
;
Orlando Guarnier Farias
7
;
Ariana Marco
7
;
Caróu Dickinson
7
and
Sand Tamires P. Camargo
7
Affiliations:
1
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica-ITA/IEC, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
;
2
Unifesp/ICT - São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
;
3
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais-INPE, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
;
4
Instituto Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
;
5
Univesp, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
;
6
Instituto Federal de São Paulo, Jacareí, SP, Brazil
;
7
Unifesp/EFLCH - Guarulhos, SP, Brazil
;
8
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
;
9
University of North Carolina, U.S.A.
Keyword(s):
Collaborative Research, VGI, e-Science, Geocoding, Open Source, History.
Abstract:
The paper discusses a platform that has been developed to support cataloguing maps, data, images, audio and video files for the researchers involved in the area of Digital Humanities. The platform is open source and online. The most important aspect of the platform is that it is entirely collaborative, i.e., those interested in history can upload information as well as download the available datasets. The main actors of the platform development are Geocoding and VGI (Voluntary Geographic Information). VGI was based on crowdsourcing. Besides showing the platform’s functionalities, the paper also presents some very relevant improvements that have been the requests from the community of Historians after using the platform.