1.1. Digital Archives of Southwest Angola -a Relational Database
The dispersal of existing archives (administrative, cartographic and oral) and printed sources (press, theses, etc.) on the 4 current Angolan provinces of Namibe, Lubango, Cunene and Cuando-Cubango makes it necessary to centralise documentary references in a relational database. The virtual archive will be accompanied by the creation of a documentary centre to be set up in coordination with partner entities in Angola. To accompany these achievements, the project envisages joint publications (critical editions, synthesis works) and methodological training.
Objectives
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Organise a digital platform divided by type of source but capable of advanced keyword searches;
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create, in a data centre to be established in one of the Angolan partner entities, a physical database with digitised copies of reproduced documentary material
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publish critical editions of documentary sources - such as the South of Angola sub-series in the Experiencias de África collection
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provide methodological training support in the areas of archives, history and IT to partner organisations with teaching responsibilities
Methods and plan
- In agreement with the institutional partners, draw up a 4-year plan, establishing the archives to be included in the 1st phase of the project (years 1 to 4)
- organise a work plan for each archive
- build the digital platform
- plan data entry and co-management of the platform
- planning the data search
Realisation indicators
- Digital platform
- 2 volumes of the South of Angola series
| Project coordinator | First Team | Team tasks | Main Partnerships |
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| Augusto Lança |
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1.7. Western Sahara War Archives- A Digital Archive for the 3rd phase of the Western Sahara War
Summary
This website aims to inform and organise data about the latest stage of the last colonial war in Africa, which started on 13th November 2020 in Western Sahara.
Is this a meaningful task in a society overloaded with news and data, in which some of the most profitable corporations belong to the media branch? More than five decades ago, some regretted that the market demand for facts had set up a fact-producing industry, in which journalists were now replacing scholars. As expected, when so much capital is poured into one branch, the unit cost of this particular good, news, tends now to zero. It is consensual, however, that something went wrong in the process. Since the “monstrous event” (which was the monumental label given by erudite historians of the 1960s for what is now just ordinary fake news in social networks), this branch of the industry has surely progressed in a peculiar way.
Objectives
- Organisation of a digital platform divided by type of source, but capable of advanced keyword searches;
- Publishing statistical and cartographic analyses of the conflict
- Publication of articles, working papers and books on the conflict,
- Production and defence of master's theses
- Training and methodological support in the areas of history, GIS, statistics applied to the social sciences and computer science for team members
Methods and Research Plan
- Organisation of a work plan
- Building and maintaining the digital platform
- Planning data entry and co-management of the platform
- Planning the data search
- Realisation indicators
Indicadores de realização
- Digital platform
- Publication of at least 1 scientific article
- Publication of at least 1 book
- Organisation of at least 1 scientific event on the subject
- Defence of at least 1 master's thesis
- Publishing statistical and cartographic analyses of the conflict
| Project Coordinator | First Team | Team tasks | Main Partnerships |
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| Jorge Teixeira |
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