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Construction and maintenance of the website of the Project VISLIS
Initially housed at CIUHCT website, and afterwards expanded into https://vislisciuhct.wixsite.com/vislis.
Besides making public the activities and outputs of the Project VISLIS, the website houses an extensive list of bibliography on urban history of science, including many books acquired during the project and a list of periodicals, which can be accessed on-line.
On-line open access database of 3 Portuguese newspapers (1900-1926)
Project VISLIS made available on an open access basis the database of Portuguese generalist newspapers (Diário de Notícias, Comércio do Porto, Diário dos Açores), resulting from the former FCT Project Reading newspapers. An open window to representations of Science and Technology in the Portuguese Press (1900-1926), PTDC/HCT/68210/2006, 2008–2011. This database includes many transcriptions of news related to STM in Lisbon. It was made public at CIUHCT’s website, “Base de Dados CIUHCT: Divulgação Científica em Jornais”. Among scholarly publications, this database has been used a source material for the final papers of MSc students enrolling in the course “Ciência e Cidade”. link
The Physical Tourist. 2-day virtual tour in Lisbon.
Based on the paper Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro, “Physical Sciences in Lisbon”, Physics in Perspective, 14 (2012), 335-367, a 2-day virtual tour in Lisbon is proposed to the virtual wanderer, including visits to several landmark STM institutional sites. Powered por Google Maps. link
Historical Urban Cartography of Lisbon
by João Machado,
The historical urban cartography of Lisbon was part of a research project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology called “Visions of Lisbon. Science, technology and medicine and the making of a techno-scientific capital (1870-1940),” project PTDC/IVC-HFC/3122/2014, which took place from 2016 to 2019 (for short VISLIS). It involved mostly members of the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), which includes around 60 graduate students, junior and senior historians of science, of technology and of medicine affiliated with the University of Lisbon or the University NOVA of Lisbon (see http://ciuhct.org).
Profiting from the information gathered during the VISLIS project, digital humanities techniques were used for constructing a research tool freely available on line, mapping science, technology and medicine (STM) sites in Lisbon and placing them in time, in the period comprised in this volume. The tool was built using the free tools QGIS and Mapbox, and was conceived and implemented by João Machado with the help of José Avelãs Nunes.
The mapping carried out formalized the survey of various formal and informal STM spaces, sites and objects, which existed in Lisbon and were studied in the context of the project VISLIS, many of which are discussed in this volume. The identification of various sites encompassed: institutions, including scientific, engineering, and medical; professional associations; teaching institutions or used for learning purposes; port institutions; working-class neighborhoods; gardens and tree lined plantations; streets, pavements and mosaic sidewalks; amusement parks, and techno-scientific objects, such as the armillary sphere or mathematical games. The layers of maps allow for a fine analysis of their relations and their connection with the reorganization and expansion of the city. link
