eViterbo: Linking Humanities Research and Open Data
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Authors Biographies: Alice Santiago Faria is an auxiliary researcher at the CHAM – Center for the Humanities, FCSH/NOVA, working on a research individual project titled "Circa 1892: Public Works Departments and the everyday building of the Portuguese empire" with Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) support (2017.00044.CEECIND). She is is co-coordinator with Sandra MG Pinto (PI), of the exploratory project “CONFORM – Conflicting Neighbours over the Built Form: Exploring Lisbon’s Legal Building Disputes in a Time of Regulatory Transition” (2022.05965PTDC). She is a member of the executive committee of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (https://giepcip.wordpress.com), under the scope of which she edited with Anne Shelle and Sandra Ataíde Lobo, The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Press (Routledge, 2023). Graduated in Architecture at Coimbra University (1997), she holds a PhD. in Art History at the Université de Paris I (2011). She is interested in the built environment in the Portuguese empire during the long 19th century, with a specific focus Public Works, with approaches between the history of architecture and the history of science and technology and in using digital methods of researching in the humanities.
Keywords: MediaWiki, Wikidata, sharing data, open science
Abstract: eViterbo is a platform that combines a MediaWiki-based encyclopedia with an open, structured linked data database, built on a Wikibase suite. Designed as a collaborative research tool, it operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, ensuring openness and accessibility. Its structured data is intentionally designed to be shared with Wikidata, amplifying its potential for interoperability and global knowledge integration.
Developed within a research project based at CHAM – Center for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, eViterbo the synergies between academia and the Wikimedia projects
This presentation explores the conceptual and technical decisions behind the creation of eViterbo, including the development of its infrastructure, data model, and collaborative workflows. It also examines the challenges faced in building and maintaining a platform of this kind in a humanities-oriented environment, including strategies for its adaptation, evolution, and maintenance in a social sciences and humanities academic environment.
Format: Paper (20 minutes presentation)
Submission Number: 45
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